Sterility or psychodrama vs. untimed engagement or intellectual drama
Margaret Soltan is not a Luddite—far from it, she has used her University Diaries blog to become one of American academic letters’ premier public intellectuals. But as an observer of college life, she has a well-reasoned hatred of what she calls technolust. She regularly links to stories about students who abuse cell phones and laptops […]
On call for Mother’s Day
Material gifts: a magazine and Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia (hat tip). Non-material gift: we do all the chores today. I didn’t quite catch my spouse before she did a few minor things, but we’ve gotten to six tasks before she got there. We don’t do the breakfast-in-bed routine for Mother’s Day, especially not with adolescent […]