Sexual Relationships in the 21st Century

Combine these two Atlantic articles, and you have a whole new cultural world that our kids are coming out of. What’s also interesting to me as an historian, however, is that we seem to have a “whole new world” every century or so. Such a dramatic shift in cultural norms isn’t unprecedented, in other words, but it sure is making our lives more complicated.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/8654/

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/

The University of Wherever

Another "change in higher education" article, this one focused on the discussions at Stanford.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/opinion/the-university-of-wherever.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=opinion

California AND Bust

Michael Lewis is a fun writer, one of my favorites, so even though this isn't an education story, I'm posting the link. I particularly enjoyed page 6 of this article, the story of the fat pheasant.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111