How Colleges’ Obsession With Smartness Shortchanges Students, Astin argues that our narrow-minded pursuit of the smartest students not only contradicts the very purpose of higher education, but ...

Smartness already defines our cities, just not in the way Sidewalk Labs and others would have you think By Kevin Rogan • July 29, 2021 • Comment , Editor's Picks , International , Technology ...

Alexander W. Astin has something to say — a lot to say, really — about smartness. He knows some people won’t want to hear it, especially if they happen to teach college students for a living ...

So today, smartness is still a means for promoting individualization, but it finds its way into our lives in the very objects that surround us. Such notions of smartness are now ubiquitous, ...

No matter what Vice President Dick Cheney says, U.S. energy security does not depend on drilling for oil in the Arctic refuge. The Alaskan oil would not come on line for at least 10 years.