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William H. Whyte
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The Students Who Went to Sea
"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"
by
William H. Whyte
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Literary Review
on
July 7, 2023
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The Cult of the Entrepreneur
Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
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The New Republic
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February 17, 2025
What Are You Going to Do With That?
The future of college in the asset economy.
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Erik Baker
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Harper’s
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July 23, 2024
Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?
New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.
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Erik Baker
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The New Yorker
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May 1, 2024
Sorting the Self
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today.
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Christopher Yates
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The Hedgehog Review
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March 3, 2024
The Dropout, a History: From Postwar Paranoia to a Summer of Love
The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control.
by
Charlie Williams
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Aeon
on
December 3, 2021
No Geniuses Here
A new book challenges the notion that independent inventors were shunted aside in the 20th century by anonymous scientists in corporate research laboratories.
by
W. Patrick McCray
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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October 21, 2021
