I don’t typically write about the arts, but Gustavo Dudamel’s move from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York represents… Read more
Category: Education
Three Blueprints for Healing Rural America
The story of rural healthcare in America is always a story of distance. Distance between patients and providers. Distance between… Read more
The Cost of Change Should Not Fall on Workers Alone
The rules of employment are shifting under workers’ feet. Artificial intelligence isn’t just automating tasks; it is redrawing the boundaries… Read more
The Intellectual Elegance of Damien Elmes
There’s something almost subversive about Anki. In a world where every app is designed to capture and monetize your attention,… Read more
Unequal. Unjust. Unacceptable: A Global Dashboard of Redistribution and Inequality
What happens when we stop asking how much people make and start asking how fairly it gets shared? That question… Read more
GPT Ate My Homework
The man sits in his kitchen at 2:47 p.m. on a Tuesday in late August, laptop open, coffee cold, staring… Read more
Naming the Pain: Narrative Labor, Language Mummification, and the Hidden Costs of Writing with AI
Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude offer powerful capabilities, but long-form creative work remains a persistent failure point…. Read more
What We Get Wrong About Doing Good, Part 1
Not long ago, I sat down with the director of a small nonprofit working on food insecurity in a mid-sized… Read more
Who Is Robert Garcia and Why You Want to Know
He was five years old the first time he understood that possibility and uncertainty can arrive together. The air in… Read more
The American Dream Is Collapsing Under Student Debt
Last year, I wrote about the mounting risks of student loan delinquency. It was bad then. It is worse now…. Read more