the depository (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... education is that it’s given us the elite we have, and the elite we’re going to have. William Deresiewicz taught English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008.
Relevant History (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... former if I had remained perpetually tethered to the latter? This also connects with an excellent William Deresiewicz essay about social media's erosion of solitude-- which in our pop psychology moments we tend to equate with loneliness and want to banish, but which serves a tremendous psychic need. Humans are social creatures who seem to grow in equal parts through being with others...
