Month: February 2016

Real people, real college: Kristin O’Keefe on academic snobbery

On By W.W. NortonIn What's College For?77 Comments

Harvard University, now that’s a real college. You know what? So are Kirkwood Community College in Iowa, Harold Washington College in Chicago, and every community college throughout the United States—over a thousand in all. In this February 2015 New York Times essay, writer Kristin O’Keefe argues that community colleges and their students merit more respect …

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Lost in transition: Rodale and Musk on the challenges of shifting to organic production

On By W.W. NortonIn What's There to Eat?6 Comments

Organic food. Do those words invoke images of a hand holding a spoon over a steaming bowl or a hand holding a shovel over a fertile mound of dirt? We’re guessing that your immediate association is with the food, but what about the farming? In this October 2015 Medium post, originally published in the Des …

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