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Michael Thorbjørn Feehly
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Notes from Undergrad
I’ve always liked books more than people; I think they stay with you longer, inhabit a deeper part of your brain. Read more. Don’t be afraid to.
Books in the Age of Digital Reproduction
This transition from page to screen will bring changes both positive (such as innovation in form) and negative (disruption of economic modes of sustaining literature).
Death of the Poet
Split This Rock—taking its name from Langston Hughes’s poem “Big Buddy”—intends to build a network of those who aspire to greater influence in public life by using poetry to advocate for social change, defend rights of freedom of expression, and renew consciousness of social responsibility in a diverse and complex world.
Embarrassing Literary Riches
Being a reader in the United States might feel lonely when one considers the data on readership collected by The Pew Research Center and Gallup.
Innovation Entering the Library
I applaud the library for taking steps to alleviate the massive delays experienced at closing time in Widener and virtually every hour, on the hour, during class sessions in Lamont.
The Many Strains of Affluenza
We need to remember the end result of a life of ignoring the consequences of our self-absorption is deadly.
The Glossy Paper Tiger
Recent developments in soft news coverage foreshadow what could be an ominous future of censored reporting in which journalists must choose between keeping their sources and investigating well-connected elites.
An Orphan Crosses His Tracks
The US must take notice of these reforms and implement them to allow the use of orphaned works for the advancement of arts and science, for the continued innovation and growth in our economy.
Literature in Lexile
If education reform is important to you, then the lexile scale should make you feel uneasy.
Lamonsters and Little Einsteins
I double-dog-dare you to go to Lamont tonight, or any night, after about 10 p.m. Go there not to study your books, but the people sitting all around you. It’s going to be hair-raising, eye-opening, trust me.
Redemption for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Even in gender-egalitarian Sweden, men hold the bulk of seats in the Academy. Women hold five seats; a sixth woman will join on December 20, and, with the death of Ulf Linde on October 7, perhaps a seventh. The reluctant selection of women, one might guess, could be rooted in the Academy itself.
Harvard University Library
But I am worried. Harvard’s collection did not spring from nothing, like Athena from the pained skull of Zeus, but from 300 odd volumes from the Reverend John Harvard and the accumulated profit of 375 plus years of diligence, resourcefulness, and prioritizing.
How General Education is Killing the Humanities at Harvard
Harvard College today offers students in the sciences world-class programs, faculty, and facilities. Students matriculate into a curriculum heavy on the humanities; so heavy, in fact, that no one need concentrate in them.
