In “Wonderworks,” Fletcher contends that self-satire helped Socrates deal with death.
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Self-Satire’s Medicinal Properties
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Read to Resist Fascism
Book bans are spreading around America. Neil Gaiman makes an impassioned plea for libraries.
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Vote for the Best Lizard
Using lizards, Douglas Adams makes a memorable case for voting for the lesser to two evils.
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The Bigger Ego: Trump’s or Zaphod’s?
If you know anyone with an “ego as big as the universe,” compare him/her to Zaphod Beeblebrox in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” In Beeblebrox’s case, it is shown to be literally true.
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Most Plagiarists Fail to “Sin Nobly”
Jason Blake’s guest column this week is on the issue of plagiarism. Jason’s experience matches my own: it takes more work to produce a successful plagiarism than to write an acceptable essay. Plagiarism is generally so obvious that the plagiarist resembles Tom Sawyer in the episode involving memorized Bible verses. As you may recall, students […]
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