The impulse at the root is ancient and admirable. In Jewish tradition: tikkun olam—literally, repair of the world. In its kabbalistic form, it described uncovering divine sparks hidden in ordinary ...

American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

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Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

It started with a daydream as Aylis Manley drifted off in science class and found herself in the kitchen of a generations-old farmhouse.

I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...

Bush — pointing to Washington’s role as commander of the Continental Army and the lead up to his presidency during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia — went on to argue that he has shown ...

To open a series of essays about U.S. presidents, George W. Bush pays tribute to George Washington, who “ensured America ...

Generative AI has created a problem that goes far deeper than cheating. When a tool like ChatGPT can write a coherent essay, solve a multi-step math problem, analyze a historical event, and produce a ...

Charli XCX, Doechii, and Troye Sivan are some of the artists publishing Substack essays that challenge perceptions of stardom.