In response to my blog from Thursday on the New York Times piece covering the extreme risks many girls face in playing high-contact sports, I drew some strong responses, and wanted to comment on them in today’s post. Let me first encourage you to check out the article by Michael Sokolove that appeared in this [...]
A Fascinating Piece from the New York Times Detailing the Injuries of Female Athletes
May 8, 2008 By 11 Comments
Michael Sokolove has published what will be a national conversation-starter in the New York Times magazine that will come out this weekend. In “The Uneven Playing Field,” Sokolove details at tremendous length the high injury risks girls and women face in playing contact sports. I found the piece compelling, frightening, and reflective of common sense: [...]
The New York Times on My Alma Mater’s Food: And You Thought People Chose Bowdoin for the Academics
April 10, 2008 By 2 Comments
Actually, title of this blog aside, most people have no idea what Bowdoin College is, let alone why anyone would choose to go to this tiny school in Maine. But I, fair friends, am here to attempt to correct this cruel imbalance of perception by the ultimate stroke of modern agency: blogging. The reason I [...]
The Resurgence of Philosophy on the Modern College Campus
April 10, 2008 By 5 Comments
The New York Times has a story out today about the surge in interest in philosophy among contemporary college students. Here’s the key quotation: “Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old [...]
What We Know About Self-Control, and What This Means for Students Who Check Their Facebook Page in Class
April 2, 2008 By 2 Comments
A couple of neuroscientists published an article in the New York Times today on the biology and effect of willpower. The article, “Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind”, by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, gives scientific verification to a principle your grandmother has been trying to teach you for years: self-control is good for you. [...]
Is Vicious Combat Between Guys a Good Thing? The New York Times on Mixed Martial-Arts
March 26, 2008 By 12 Comments
The New York Times magazine just published a story on mixed martial-arts fighting that caught my eye. Paul Wachter has crafted “Gladiator” as an exploration of the culture and morality of this “sport”, which is rapidly growing in the United States. I’ve read material on this sport before but had not encountered an article of [...]
The Week-est Link, March 14, 2008: 9 Crimes, and the Sound of Falling Slowly
March 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
1. Earlier this week, I wrote about the movie Once. Here’s the movie’s key song, “Falling Slowly”. Tell me it’s not a great song. It’s especially exhilarating to see the song performed in the movie. It’s all make-believe, of course, but in the movie, the key actors compose it together in a music store. It’s [...]
Segregated Education: The New York Times Considers the Same-Sex Education Issue
March 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I came across an interesting and lengthy piece by Elizabeth Weil in the New York Times which tackles the question of whether single-sex education is a beneficial and justifiable educational option. I worked for eighteen months on research for a book on manhood and thus found the article compelling. I’ll give you a few key [...]
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