Archive - Extra Credit

Carmen, Chameleon

Jennifer Wilks tracks an opera heroine’s many guises, from Bizet to Beyoncé

Jun 18 •

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Making the Case for People

Economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on falling birth rates, global depopulation, and what comes next

Jun 4 •

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May 2025

Arguing Ethically

Mark Longaker on a 1980s curriculum debate and its present-day echoes

May 21 •

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Fat Pope, Skinny Pope

What an Italian proverb can tell us about the next head of the Catholic Church

May 7 •

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April 2025

The Horse and the Whale

Janet Davis on how animals tell the story of American development

Apr 23 •

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Highbrow Advice for Life: Saying What You Mean

Thucydides on the weaponization of language

Apr 9 •

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March 2025

Marketing the Liberal Arts: Recruitment Season

How can we get more students to choose a liberal arts degree?

Mar 26 •

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The Mentor Mindset

Psychologist David Yeager on the science of motivating young people

Mar 12 •

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February 2025

Foreign in a Domestic Sense

Mónica Jiménez on Puerto Rico and “Making Never-Never Land”

Feb 26 •

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Who Are the Real Elite?

William Deresiewicz on who holds power when the center fails to hold

Feb 12 •

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January 2025

A Tale of Three Nations

Listen now | Kim Pernell on "Visions of Financial Order"

Jan 29 •

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Who's Counting?

Anat Schechtman on non-quantitative notions of infinity

Jan 15 •

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