Programs offering bachelor’s degrees are stuck in a predictable mold: Most classes are between three and four credit hours; each semester’s load is between 12 and 18 credit hours; each semester’s length is 15 weeks; each year is two semesters; four years makes a degree. In an economy and culture as dynamic as ours, this much standardization makes little sense.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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I didn’t intend the 10 principles of good design to be set in stone forever.
~ Dieter Rams
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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Conservatives are right that fathers matter; liberals are right that easy access to assault weapons amplifies catastrophe. Both truths stand. But legislation alone will not heal a culture where despair metastasizes faster than hope. What’s needed is more mentors, not more metal detectors. Communities must learn to listen before they punish. Schools must treat warning signs as pleas, not paperwork.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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As progressive Americans have become more secular, the academy has become their primary moral training ground. The results have not been good.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
~ Hannah Arendt
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If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Anthropic’s headquarters, in downtown San Francisco, sits in the shadow of the Salesforce tower. There is no exterior signage. The lobby radiates the personality, warmth, and candor of a Swiss bank.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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It shouldn’t be surprising that working-class Americans of color sympathize with migrants but don’t necessarily want an open border, that they fear crime at least as much as police misconduct. But their views confound progressives, who see these issues through the almost metaphysical lens of group identity—the belief that we think inside lines of race, gender, and sexuality, that these accidental and immutable traits dictate our politics.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Twitter is now the most effective way to keep up with breaking news, a singular direct line to the president, and a conspicuously mismanaged experiment in centralized public discourse.
~ John Herrman
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