Opinion

When I was in grammar and middle school, writing term papers, my father offered me some advice. Apparently, it had worked for him during his own inglorious academic career. He told me to pick an obscure topic that my teacher knew nothing about; which probably explains why one effort was devoted to zeppelins. That way he wouldn’t be well enough informed to correct me and punish me with a bad grade.

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For 5 years, Trish Hall set the high standard for which opinion pieces ultimately landed on the New York Times Op-Ed page. Her new book is "Writing to…

In our Ideas Matter segment we take time just about every week to check in with the state humanities councils in our 7-state region.This week we check in…

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