When Liv Barefoot first heard Hurricane Helene was headed towards the College of North Carolina at Asheville, she didn’t anticipate it to upend her senior yr and escalate her nervousness about local weather change. That’s as a result of she’d all the time thought of the North Carolina mountains as one thing of a “local…
To the editor: In “The Finish of the Academy?” (September 19, 2024), Mark A. Boyer rightfully calls consideration to the risks of performative, one-sided activism in academia—activism that prioritizes symbolism over substantive change. The identical dynamic is enjoying out within the halls of Congress, the place the dialog round antisemitism has devolved into political posturing…
Development: A Historical past and a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind Printed in April 2024 “When you begin enthusiastic about [economic] development, it’s laborious to consider the rest.” Whereas it’s uncertain that the economist Robert Lucas ever uttered these actual phrases, they—the phrases—really feel true. My expertise has been that when I began considering significantly about…
by Romuald (morocco) Some individuals suppose that as an alternative of stopping local weather change, we have to discover a approach to dwell with it. To what extent do you agree or disagree? As of late, local weather change is likely one of the most debated matters worldwide. Many individuals argue that as an alternative…
The timeless Park Hearth spreading by way of Northern California began about 10 miles from the campus of California State College, Chico. Whereas the wildfire has up to now spared Chico State’s major campus, it’s already displaced quite a few workers from their properties and destroyed a lot of the college’s 3,950-acre Huge Chico Creek…
In 2015, we excessivemilded for you The Unusual Case of the Cosmic Rays, a bigly-forreceivedten 1957 educational science movie. The professionalduction is notable halfly as a result of it was shot by Frank Capra, the influential director who had gained not one, not two, however three Oscars for greatest director. And in addition as a result of the…