Sunday, February 21, 2016
A fun article on the uses and misuses of literature in business
education. Despite some negative examples, good literature could be truly illuminating
for those who do not just skate through the default major…
Saturday, February 13, 2016
This is a fun article from Harvard Magazine describing the lives of Ivy League superachievers.
It reminds me of an older piece by David Brooks, “The Organization Kid.” That title, of
course, is a spoof of the 1950s sociological classic, Organization Man.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
A few years ago, psychologists Josh Foster and Joan M.Twenge published a book called The Narcissism Epidemic. In this blog post, Twenge says they have done another study “showing that narcissistic traits are increasing even faster than we previously thought.” Some of their colleagues disagree, pointing to other data or methodological flaws in the work of Foster and Twenge. They could be right. But this is precisely the trend Christopher Lasch diagnosed in The Culture of Narcissism. And the outcome Tocqueville, Mill, Webb, Hobhouse and others once feared. One could argue that Foster and Twenge describe a mostly American cultural tendency. Tocqueville once felt, however, that in the United States he could observe the future shape and character of the whole civilized world. And that could still be the case.
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