In the World of Ideas, Place Matters

Tara Rockefeller, Big Think, July 26, 2013 Powerful ideas emerge from particular places. This article discusses where they come from and why some ideas take hold and others fall by the wayside. […read more]

Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?

Jay Caspian Kang, The New York Times, July 25, 2013 Is Reddit to blame for the wrongful identification of missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi as one of the two perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings? This article examines this question in...

What Lou Gehrig Might Have Said at Cooperstown

Jonathan Eig, The Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2013 As the Baseball Hall of Fame prepares to honor Lou Gehrig, Jonathan Eig shares what he imagines Gehrig’s speech would have been in 1939 if he’d been well enough to travel to Cooperstown for the...