• Drugmakers undermine medical journals and skew medical research http://www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/ 39 comments 7/6/2011
• Solitude and Leadership http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ 6 comments 17/1/2011
• The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/ 36 comments 28/10/2010
• Solitude and Leadership: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ 31 comments 30/6/2010
• Solitude and Leadership http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ 3 comments 16/3/2010
• The Decline of the English Department http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-decline-of-the-english-department/print/ 25 comments 28/2/2010
• Writing English as a Second Language http://www.theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-language/ 26 comments 15/1/2010
• F. Scott Fitzgerald and living on $500,000 a year http://www.theamericanscholar.org/living-on-500000-a-year/ 9 comments 29/10/2009
• The Disadvantages of an Elite Education http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/ 78 comments 6/6/2009
• William Zinsser: Writing "On Writing Well" and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years http://www.theamericanscholar.org/visions-and-revisions/ 7 comments 24/3/2009
• Colonia Dignidad: The Curious History of a German Cult in Chile http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au08/torture-falconer.html 2 comments 27/10/2008
• ‘Buying Off’ China’s Intellectuals http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au08/censor-jin.html 2 comments 2/10/2008
• The Disadvantages of an Elite Education http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html 69 comments 23/6/2008

• Flacking for Big Pharma --- Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research http://www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=twitter 5 comments 4/6/2011 business
• "A friend who teaches at the University of Connecticut once complained to me that his students don’t think for themselves. Well, I said, Yale students think for themselves, but only because they know we want them to." http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/ 6 comments 2/7/2010 philosophy
• Neurological surgeon recommends dying from "having lived" on a ventilator in a CCU http://www.theamericanscholar.org/to-die-of-having-lived/ 20 comments 24/5/2010 cogsci
• A psycholinguist confesses her strong attraction to pronouns http://www.theamericanscholar.org/they-get-to-me/ 21 comments 3/5/2010 cogsci
• "Mark David Chapman, the young assassin, was carrying two things with him when he shot and killed John Lennon on the steps of the Dakota apartments in Manhattan: a pistol and a paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye." http://www.theamericanscholar.org/on-first-looking-into-chapmans-holden-speculations-on-a-murder/print/ 5 comments 20/3/2010 books
• The Disadvantages of an Elite Education http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/?foo=bar 5 comments 6/6/2009 reddit.com
• The Torture Colony: In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/ 5 comments 17/4/2009 worldnews
• "In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds." http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au08/torture-falconer.html 15 comments 27/10/2008 philosophy
• The Torture Colony, or how a German evangelical community colluded with Pinochet http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au08/torture-falconer.html 3 comments 27/10/2008 reddit.com
• The Disadvantages of an Elite Education http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html 19 comments 1/7/2008 philosophy
• The disadvantage of an elite education is that it’s given us the elite we have, and the elite we’re going to have. http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html 2 comments 18/6/2008 reddit.com
• The discoverer of the Flynn effect claims genes control IQ less than you’d expect http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/flynn-restak.html 6 comments 25/11/2007 science
• Space and time fall into the province of biology -- of animal sense perception -- not of physics http://www.theamericanscholar.org/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html 2 comments 12/3/2007 reddit.com