Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all value intelligence in different ways, but when it crosses into snobbery, it can quietly sabotage friendships and ...

Some people get excited about sports scores or celebrity gossip, but intellectuals find their thrills in different places. If you’re someone who gets genuinely excited about learning, thinking deeply, ...

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Roosevelt Montás is an outspoken advocate for a humanistic liberal arts education rooted in transformative texts, particularly the Great Books tradition. As director of Columbia’s Center for the Core ...

Prominent intellectual, professor, activist, and feminist bell hooks passed away this week from end-stage renal disease. She was a trailblazer in black feminist thought, publishing 40 books, receiving ...