ESSAYS
The Pointless End of Legacy Admissions (New Yorker online)
The College Admissions Crucible (New Yorker online)
The book that predicted Trump (New Yorker online)
The poisonous reach of the college admissions process (New Yorker online)
Allan Bloom’s guide to college (New Yorker online)
Race and friendship in Michael Chabon’s Oakland (New Yorker online)
David Foster Wallace, not a Romantic when it came to facing boredom (Slate)
Kelly Slater, the world’s greatest surfer, should be one of your sports heroes (Slate)
The admirable nationalism of the “Canadian ‘Wire’” (Slate)
Authenticus Maximus: Metatextual bloodletting in Showtime’s “Spartacus” (Slate)
Breaking up with Coach K: The unbearable kitsch of college sports (Slate)
Angry Nerds: How Nietzsche gets misread by angry young men (Slate)
George Bush ruins another movie (Slate)
The Surf Also Rises, or, some movies about macho friendship might not be homoerotic (Slate)