Box #3

The Decline of Reading, Arthur Brooks, Hieroglyphics, Jeannie Suk Gersen, Wallace Stevens, Nassim Taleb

1. Entertaining interview with Stanford University President. How to reconcile the fact that elite college is harder than ever to get into, yet the intellectual calibre of the students seems to be declining. Money quote: “In one of my classes, I was randomly assigned a partner to work on a presentation together. He told me that he had not read a book, cove…