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Knowledge, in Our Own Language

We often pretend that language is a neutral vessel for ideas. It isn't. The launch of Dr Kausar Ali's 'Applied Epistemology' at the Fatimiyah Higher Education System (Karachi) made that clear: once ...
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What the Founders Would Say Now

The originalist fallacy that dominates the current Supreme Court—the pretense that it is possible to read the minds of the Founders and discern what they “really” meant—in fact turns the Founders into ...
Over the years, YouTube became oversaturated with videos about study tips. However, like in every fad, there are always ...
The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...
The Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg discusses her article about how some HISD elementary teachers have to sneak books ...
He’d hoped to chronicle the company’s long-awaited overhaul of its online unabridged dictionary, the first major undertaking ...
To hear PEN America and Moms For Liberty speak about the dangers of a society curtailing free speech, you may need to squint to see the differences. Both organizations profess an unwavering commitment ...
Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse. In his novels and new book, Cory Doctorow asks whether technology ...