Margaret Wente

If anyone’s in need of a retrograde lecture, it’s the Dalhousie dentistry students, writes Anne Kingston

Don’t let naysayers derail your dreams. Study what you want.

What students are talking about today (April 9th)

Before judging, please consider what professors actually do

The Globe is giving us no practical indication whatsoever of how seriously it takes plagiarism

Texas tuition freeze, a stabbing & mandatory women’s studies

How the Internet first killed, then crowdsourced fact-checking

In January, the Globe and Mail appointed longtime editor and correspondent Sylvia Stead its first “public editor”. What say we pause right there, before we go any further? The job of “public editor” is one most closely associated with the New York Times, which has had five different people doing the job since it created a post with that title in 2003—soon after the Jayson Blair fabrication scandal. The function of the public editor at the Times, as the title suggests, is to advocate for journalism ethics, fairness, and proper practice on behalf of the paper’s readership, dealing with concerns and challenges as they arise.

Stop being so cynical about young people

Emma Teitel says the anti-youth, ‘kids these days’ reflex is cynical beyond belief — especially coming from the Canadian baby boomer generation

Cut the calories–and the crap

So the rich are getting richer. What does it mean for the rest of us? Not much.