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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Joyce Carol Oates on America, idealism, and the shackles we can and can’t shake off. 

Our anger over the murder of nine black church-going individuals in South Carolina is real and justified, but is it useful?

“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we’re reading, we’re thinking. It’s a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we’re looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there’s not as much reflective time. And it’s the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”  

A quote from author Joyce Carol Oates: “The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.” She believes hard work and tenacity are the main ingredients for success. Do you agree?

Words of wisdom from the American author (and prolific tweeter): “Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.”

The Internet is a funny place. Humor is one the things it does best, which is why I was shocked, and ultimately disappointed, at the collective reaction to Joyce Carol Oates’ recent tweet.

Carol Sawdye, the Chief Financial Officer of PwC, shares the story of how a startling life event pushed her to become more active in career management.

The vice chairman and chief financial officer of PwC recounts how being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease at 25 pushed her to become more active in pursuit of career goals.

T.J. Breeden’s nonprofit eMerging Enterprises employs a grassroots approach to providing job training and career advice to veterans and other people in need of a helping hand.

A group of lawmakers have introduced bills in the South Carolina legislature that would require public schools to establish gun safety courses for students.

This photograph depicting a young girl at work in a North Carolina cotton mill was taken by the American photographer Lewis W. Hine (1874 – 1940) in 1908. Child labor in […]

Steve Sellery, owner of RisingTide Sports & Entertainment, designs experiential events and marketing programs. His latest venture is an interactive game show for military bases.

Under a new South Carolina law, third graders who fail a state-administered standardized reading exam will be held back starting in 2018. The policy is part of the state’s new Read to Succeed Act.

— By Victoria Bassetti, David Norton and Alan Rosenblatt Now that Mitt Romney can claim two wins in the Republican primaries/caucuses, where do his rivals go?  We know physically: South […]

This week’s recipient of the crimson megaphone is Carolyn Foote, a high school librarian in Austin, Texas. Carolyn blogs at Not So Distant Future and is definitely someone that deserves […]

Hey, who put mustard on my map?

Stop obsessing over lenses, and “make sure you have mentors.”

A conversation with the photographer and art director.

Milan Kundera wrote that “we can never really know what to want because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in […]

Do good scientists aim for fixed goals or follow their curiosity? And do they ever worry that they’re barking up the wrong tree?

A conversation with the Johns Hopkins University molecular biologist and co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Grammy-award winning singer Carole King has been raising her voice on the radio lately—not in song, this time, but in a plea for the Rocky Mountains. King hails from the […]

A fashion historian needs to be an expert on her own wardrobe.

A conversation with the fashion historian and professor of French Literature at Barnard.

The fashion author and historian worries about the quantity and quality of her output.

Being an older woman in the U.S. means enjoying a great deal of freedom.

Carol Gilligan says the inspiration for her novel goes back to one Sunday with the New York Times Book Review.

Carol Gilligan sees our sense of privacy keeping us from a productive debate on gender.

Despite some gains, women are still faced with voices telling them to not be themselves.

Carol Gilligan reflects on civil rights.