Critical thinking

A Man of All Reasons

by Mark Shiffman,

From “Steven Pinker Meets Socrates,” which was published in January by First Things. This dialogue incorporates text from Pinker’s book Rationality, which was published last year. steven pinker: Socrates! We…

The Neoliberal Arts

by William Deresiewicz,

How college sold its soul to the market

Ordinary critics

by Benjamin DeMott,

Immanuel Kant and the Talking Heads

Right can be wrong

by Edward De Bono,

Murmurings of a common scold

by Burges Johnson,

The mind in the making (part I)

by James Harvey Robinson,

The psychology of the half-educated man

by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike,

An opinion of opinions

by Brian Hooker,

Education by violence

by Henry Seidel Canby,

Writing English