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It doesn’t look like he’s trying that hard.

Neil Postman taught at NYU for over four decades. His ideas have never been more relevant.

When I try to discuss this, he yells at me and says that he just does things differently.

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I’m bewildered.

Why is a foreign government incarcerating hundreds of immigrants on the United States’ behalf?

Writing memoir is a political act. (So get to it!)

“We made these films on our own time, with our own money.”

What we love, what we hate, and what we’re curious about this year.

Chief Justice John Roberts couldn't conceal his contempt for a map that gave fair representation to Black Louisianians.

Now we’re criticizing Rachel Zegler’s Snow White for not taking a nap the whole time?

How bad would it be?

Being a private university was never really a shield against politics.

I know he's a victim here, but ...

I’m not sure it’s worth it.

Season 29 has looked like all the rest. What's happened off the screen has not.

I'm worried about this.

When the shock of the Trump administration’s attack on higher ed wears off, what recourse do they have?

Plus: kicking around a move and saying goodbye to the family dog.

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If you thought the previous episode’s brotherly love between Saxon and Lochlan was scandalous, wait till you get a load of this.

I'm trying so hard to be cool about this.

I'm torn.

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