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The Dignity That Can Be Destroyed
On the Anthropological Contradiction at the Heart of Magnifica Humanitas
May 31
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The Article That Claimed Too Much
On Rebecca Winthrop’s “What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity” and what the underlying research actually supports
May 28
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The Clause That Runs the Country
What 31 phone ban laws got right — and the four words they all left unfinished
May 18
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Not the App. Not the Ban. Train the Teacher.
Why every phone ban in America contains a sentence nobody has finished writing
May 16
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The Man Who Couldn't Follow His Own Argument
Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness is a brilliant book that does, repeatedly, the exact thing it tells you not to do.
May 14
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April 2026
The Measurement That Wasn't There
On the quiet fraud at the center of AI education research — and why it's harder to catch than the kind that gets retracted
Apr 29
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The Limits of AI: What the Tools Cannot Do
The Test You Did Not Design
Apr 29
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The Ladder That Isn't There
What Companies Are Building to Replace the Rung AI Eliminated
Apr 25
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The Robot Tutor and the Fishing Village
What "Personalization" Has Always Meant, and What Adaptive Learning Has Always Delivered
Apr 24
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The Assessment Was Already Broken
On Jessica Winter's "What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?" and what the panic about AI reveals about everything that came before it
Apr 24
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The Gap Between What We Measure and What We Name
On the Structural Problem That Forty Years of EdTech Efficacy Research Has Not Solved
Apr 23
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The Comparison That Was Never Fair
What Intelligent Tutoring Systems Actually Measured, and What They Were Compared Against
Apr 21
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