Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In the days after Rolling Stone’s University of Virginia rape story blew up in its face, both liberal and conservative finger-waggers agreed that Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s journalistic transgression would almost certainly make things more difficult for the “real” victims. They were right. After months of widespread coverage of sexual assault allegations at Columbia, this week…
The anger directed at HBO’s The Newsroom in December in the wake of an episode that attempted to capitalize on the debate surrounding the scourge of college sexual assault crystallized the complexity of emotions surrounding the very complicated issue plaguing campuses nationwide. At the time, the Rolling Stone/UVA debacle was dominating headlines — a magazine…
Paul Nungesser was cleared of a rape charge but faced a harsh trial-by-media. Now, as new details come to light, he’s speaking out and fighting back. The Columbia University senior vividly remembers the day, in April 2013, when he received a phone call while working in the school’s digital architecture lab. It was the campus…
In my new book BOLD, one of the interviews that I’m most excited about is with my good friend Ray Kurzweil. Bill Gates calls Ray, “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.” Ray is also amazing at predicting a lot more beyond just AI. This post looks at his very…
Erin Dyer is a sorority sister at the University of Virginia. (Photo courtesy of Erin Dyer) Erin Dyer, a sorority sister and a junior at the University of Virginia, wrote this (very lightly edited) piece after she was told that she and other sorority members on campus would not be allowed to attend fraternity parties…
(John McDonnell/The Washington Post) Jake McLernon began his undergraduate career at George Mason in 2008, two years after the men’s basketball team’s Cinderella run to the Final Four. On Wednesday, McLernon, who earned a Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Film and Video Studies in December, released his capstone project, “8 Years Past Midnight,”…
People who are concerned about the use of excessive force by law enforcement may have to deal with another fatal can of worms. If Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn (R) gets his way, teachers will have the right to use deadly force against students in Texas classrooms, in the near future. The Lone Star State…
We are so proud and excited to announce the Pedagogy Project! This project started when several professors asked for specific suggestions on digital or collaborative projects they could do with their students. We asked the HASTAC Scholars to provide specific assignments, in-class exercises and other projects. The response was awesome – over 80 specific and…
googleon: snippetFor the past four years, photographer Brandon Stanton has documented people he encountered along the streets of New York City for his popular blog, “Humans of New York,” but it was a photo last week of a teenager in Brooklyn that has taken the world by storm. Walking through Brownsville, Brooklyn, an area with…
So, to state the obvious: Jon Chait is a jerk who somehow manages to be both condescending and wounded in his piece on political correctness. He gets the basic nature of language policing wrong, and his solutions are wrong, and he’s a centrist Democrat scold who is just as eager to shut people out of…