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I have to call bullshit on this one. Most of us here, supposedly "conscientious" people, can trace our being here (in the existential sense of "being") to some ancestor with "low c…

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Let me be clear: I don't think there's anything wrong with this vision. This approach would probably be a success. It may be needed. The problem is this: somehow we mutated univers…

In a chapter titled “What College Could Be Like,” Mr. Khan conjures an image of a new campus in Silicon Valley where students would spend their days working on internships and proj…

Standard of living is going up, but quality of life is definitely declining in major cities. There is a lot more money (even after adjusting for inflation) so the purchasing power …

This is a great post - "moral suffering" exactly captures the feeling I have as an educated and affluent Indian. Yet, I keep going back, keep doing more in India. I have thought ab…