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The problem is I can’t make up my mind about confession.

In Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald argues that today’s popular music, movies, TV shows, and books are making the world a better place. For all the hand-wringing about the decline of morals and the cheapening of culture in our time, contemporary media brims with examples of fascinating and innovative art that promote positive and uplifting moral messages—without coming across as “preachy.”

The movement away from irony and toward sincerity is reflected in the so-called "authenticity" advantage Trump holds over his rivals.

In our lead article this month Wei-Meng Lee introduces you to the Go language and shares why companies are flocking to it. Paul Sheriff explores geolocation and working with Google Maps, Editor Rod Paddock talks about the challenges we face today in the shadow of COVID-19 and the temporary and more lasting changes in the “new normal”, CODE Publisher Markus Egger shares part 2 of his interview with Microsoft Regional Director, Dr. Neil Roodyn, and that’s not even half of the magazine!

First came the declaration of war on The New York Times’s 1619 Project, which examines the way slavery has shaped American society and national identity.

Submissions The Digital Review seeks to showcase personal, artistic and academic forms of born-digital essay writing. Submitted essays may be exploratory, provocative, critical and/or polemical takes

Seven months in, one thing is clear: schools can’t bridge the "digital divide" on their own.

It exported a literature of individualism and domesticity — not one of solidarity and big ideas.

To bring back memories of your schooldays, there's nothing quite like the sight of your old exercise books. This holds true whether you went to school in Ghana in the 2010s, Italy in the 90s, France in the 80s, China in the 70s, Japan in the 60s, or India in the 50s.

On the power and privilege of the written word in the Middle Ages.

Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?

Utopia-minded tech gurus promise they’ll solve all of academe’s problems. They won’t.

In San Francisco, Becca Andrews pulled the filing for a 1976 Supreme Court decision that granted abortion providers the power to sue for their patients’ well-being. In Chicago, Michael O’Loughlin headed to an archive to pore over records documenting the lives of gay Catholics during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. And in […]

I still can’t decide whether I’ve retired or just resigned, or am in fact redundant and unemployed. I’m undeniably...