The (tech) kids are alright. Given the centrality of technology in today’s world, nonprofits, government agencies, and corporations are keen to foster youth tech skills. To that end, these organizations host a dizzying number of computer science competitions at local, national, and international levels. Whether your passion lies with...
Read MoreShirley Jackson is best remembered for her sharply critical, feminist deflation of broadly accepted norms of mid-twentieth-century American life. It is a great irony that her most incendiary of works, “The Lottery,” is now a widely taught classic. When Jackson’s short story was published in The New Yorker in...
Read MoreWhat percentage of Americans go to college? Since the great postwar boom in university enrollments of the 1950s-60s, Americans have persistently associated college education with social mobility. The popularity of college explains how the percentage of Americans with college degrees has increased in recent years. A greater percentage of...
Read More“Googleable” and “searchable” are both forms of internet slang that describe the ease of locating data or people online. As words, they seem difficult to think of outside of our smartphone present. But these neologisms of the digital age are also part of a very old grammatical tradition. Like...
Read MoreWhat does it mean for a political speech to be “equivocal”? In the absence of Google, you could use the prefix in equivocal to understand its definition. Prefixes are parts of words that are added at the beginning of base or root words to change their meaning. For example,...
Read MoreIf you haven’t read Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel by Nobel-prize-winning British author William Golding, you may still recognize its oft-cited title. Ever since its publication, Golding’s tale of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island and the ruthless infighting that ensues has become...
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