Walt Hunter, a professor of English, on why accommodating students' shrinking attention spans may be the wrong response — and what reading deeply actually requires of a teacher.
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George Orwell (Orwell Foundation)Orwell's 1936 essay on the corrosive psychology of imperialism — a young British police officer in Burma, a rampaging elephant, and the moment he understood he had already been ruined by the system he served.
I had never before known it to be so violently still.
Baldwin at his father's funeral, 1943. The single sentence that named the American century's central lie about race and silence.
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