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June 2025

Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth
When We Don’t Speak Our Minds: Reviewing Glenn C. Loury’s ‘Self-Censorship’
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Joel J Miller
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Whatever Happened to the Semicolon?
Why Punctuation Is Less About Rules and More About Economics
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Joel J Miller
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Shadow Texts: Using AI to Teach Reading and Writing
How One Technology Informs Another
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Suzanne Smith
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The Human Comedy of ‘The Betrothed’
Reviewing Alessandro Manzoni’s Beloved Italian Classic
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Joel J Miller
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Chickens? A Bigger Deal Than You’d Guess
Birds in Books: Chick Lit, Plus Sy Montgomery’s ‘What the Chicken Knows’ and Charles Willeford’s ‘Cockfighter’
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Joel J Miller
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Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives
Reviewing Alissa Wilkinson’s ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine’
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Joel J Miller
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Machines Don’t Believe. Is That Our Secret Advantage?
Why Belief—and Especially Disbelief—Might Remain Uniquely Human
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Joel J Miller
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Prompted: Should Students Use AI, and How?
When ChatGPT Writes Better Than Your Average Term Paper, Maybe the Problem Isn’t the Student—or Even the Tool
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Joel J Miller
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Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal)
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When the Rules No Longer Apply
Reviewing Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’
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A Brief Argument for Short Books
7 Reasons to Love Short Books—Plus 16 Slender Specimens to Try on for Size
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May 2025

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