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Ideas · Essay
…every year I checked, than the men who loaded the finished bolts onto the trucks. This is an essay in praise of that kind of work, the work of keeping things going, and I should admit at the outset that praise…
Ideas · Essay
Carts, church bells, barking dogs and leaf blowers. Every generation believes it is the first to be denied its quiet.
Ideas · Essay
We talk about time off as something earned. The older idea was that it is what work is for.
Technology · Language
…home and Orvan in her classroom. In the autumn term she began to see the same mistake in essay after essay, from children who had never made it before. Orvan verbs carry a small suffix that English lacks.…
Ideas · Reading
…without flipping, a citation that delivered its source to your screen. I remember reading long essays in the late 1990s in which every third phrase was underlined in blue, and feeling that I had been handed the…