The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library,” Albert Einstein once wrote — a thought that feels almost architectural when it ...
I’ve seen the effects of this change up close, having taught English in college classrooms since 2007, and I’ve witnessed the ...
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As a trailer park guy who never knew his biological father and was desperate for a decent male role model, in Skip I saw a rough-hewn blue-collar man’s man who was well-read without being precious, ...
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Huntington flips this equation on its head. The cost of living runs about 22% below the national average, a number that ...
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Opinion

The tyranny of targets

Charles Goodhart, an economist, and Donald Campbell, a psychologist, each famously explained that perfectly decent quantitative metrics become corrupted once they’re pressed into service as targets.
Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin.