In Korean pop (K-pop), idols have become cultural Build-a-Bears: meet Korean beauty standards, sing English lyrics and perform a marketable version of Koreanness calibrated...
College has become a four-year exercise in saying later. Later, after graduation. Later, after the internship. Later, after the first stable job, the better...
Simone Weil, a 20th-century French philosopher, treated attention as a moral discipline that teaches people to encounter the world with humility. With the continuous...
Albert Camus will often enter students’ lives incidentally through a classroom text or a casual recommendation.
Camus speaks to a stage of life when people...
In 2026, when everyone wants to be interesting, far fewer people are actually interested in something.
That difference reveals a deeper problem in contemporary culture....
Discussions of childhood are a battleground in American politics. Every fight over a child is a fight over the future. In legislative debates, representatives...
Historian James Truslow Adams coined the term “American Dream” during the Great Depression to describe the possibility of a better life available to anyone...
