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• In the Times Higher Education, Daniel Matlin, author of On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis, examined the persistent need for African American intellectuals to focus on race in order to gain prominence in the public sphere.
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• Keith Robinson, coauthor of The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children’s Education, talked with Maclean’s about the unexpected disadvantages to children’s education of having highly-involved parents.

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December 3: How We'll Shop

Very soon it may be true that in some parts of the world drones are what shadow, spy, and kill, while elsewhere drones are just what deliver the junk you bought online that afternoon. Someone attempting to put finger to this modern world’s fundamental dichotomy could do a lot worse than that. This absurd little global delineation would come courtesy of Amazon.com, whose founder Jeff Bezos unveiled the plan on 60 Minutes this past weekend. Amazon “Octocopters”—so named for their eight individually powered blades—would deliver packages of up to five pounds to areas within a 10-mile radius of an Amazon distribution center. Given the speed with which the company is erecting such center…