
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
New Books in Higher Education
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The Authoritarian Speech Code of Silicon Valley
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: I went to school in Silicon Valley. And there's just like a lot of confusing messages about this coming from there, because on the one hand, they really emphasize autonomy a lot. She says that change the world language is simply a fig leaf for all of that.Ben-Ghiats: You can see that just comprehensive amorality at Stanford. Totally. Of technocratic education.
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