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Genius
August 29, 2024
Timothy Noah
The Case for Mediocrity
August is America’s dumbest month, but it has a life lesson for us all: Our overly meritocratic society should serve people as they are, and not as it wishes them to be.
April 12, 2016
Navneet Alang
Do We Still Need Comments?
They're a powerful tool, but very easy to abuse—as the recent controversy over Genius annotations shows.
October 21, 2015
Malcolm Harris
How to Make a Virtuoso Violinist
One mother’s devastating study of 100 musical prodigies
September 22, 2015
Evan Kindley
Down the Rabbit Hole
The rise, and rise, of literary annotation
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