Ken Auletta | New Yorker | 23 April 2012 If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for old elites, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. But with many students there developing a gold-rush mentality, is it striking the right balance between commerce and learning? Comments Michael Tomasky | NYRB | 19 April 2012 Is it still the economy, stupid? No one would say economic conditions are unimportant in determining the outcome of elections, but how much do campaigns matter? Tomasky weighs up Romney vs Obama, 2012 Comments Lewis Lapham | TomDispatch | 22 April 2012 On language, information, technological change. The Internet may be a marvellous machine, but it scans everything and hears nothing, as tone-deaf as the filtering devices of the Pentagon (Starts after seven-paragraph introduction) Comments Richard Dowden | WSJ | 20 April 2012 It's a lot better than you think. "Most African countries have enjoyed more than a decade of economic growth at rates we in the West can only dream about." Two big new forces for growth: Chinese investment, and mobile phones Comments David Weinberger | Chronicle Review | 22 April 2012 Thomas Kuhn's "Structure Of Scientific Revolutions" rewrote the history of science, by introducing the concept of "paradigm shift". Science advances not by single ideas, but by systems of ideas, which displace one another Comments Will Self | BBC | 20 April 2012 Learning requires effort. And that is how it should be. So it's dismal to see "the traditional set texts chopped up into boneless nuggets of McKnowledge, and students encouraged to do their research – such as it is – on the web" Comments | 
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