March Madness
Timeless stories from our 173-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Schumer on Netanyahu: “An Obstacle to Peace”
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Netanyahu, under investigation, on keeping his friends close.
Read “Friend Zone of Conflict”
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Andrew J. Bacevich asks why America can’t beat its addiction to war.
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“Our foreign policy is in the hands of our representatives, and our Constitution provides that these representatives must reside in the districts which they represent. Therefore, as politicians, they cannot formulate a foreign policy with reference to the nation as a whole; they must keep a careful eye on the local interests of their districts.”
Read “Peace by Incantation” by Albert Jay Nock
TikTok: On Borrowed Time?
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Content and its discontents.
Read “The Anxiety of Influencers” by Barrett Swanson
Admit It: The FAFSA Fiasco
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“We do not yet know how to pay for the higher education we have, let alone for the amount we must have a decade or two hence. Yet the greatest weakness of our present system is that it attempts to do ‘on the cheap’ what can only be done by spending a great deal more money.”
Read “Will the Colleges Blow Their Tops?” by Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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“What if academia’s pricing, which has hung student debt like a millstone around the neck of an entire generation, is completely out of whack?”
Read “The Price of Admission” by Thomas Frank
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Accounting for the burden of student loans.
Basket Cases
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Youth basketball comes of age.
Read “For Love or Money” by Charles Bock
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How elite youth basketball exploits African athletes.
Read “American Hustle” by Alexandra Starr
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On college sports, a century ago: “If the man who fails happens to be nineteen years old he may get an ego bruise which will leave him permanently tender. And if he succeeds brilliantly he may be no better off. The American community is cluttered with ineffective young men who gave their souls to learn drop-kicking and then found that there was no future in it.”
Read “Dying for ‘Dear Old–’” by Heywood Broun