If we truly want to make America smart again, we must reject the culture of shortcuts, diluted curricula and intellectual complacency—and instead embrace a renewed commitment to rigor, inquiry and the ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Kim Hastreiter has struggled with defining her role in the cultural landscape. But with her new book, “Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos,” she’s found the right vessel. Using the objects she’s ...

Readers react to Joseph Bottum’s academic experiment.

I genuinely thought that the pandemic would finish it off, yet The Apprentice rumbles on regardless, wheezing through its 20th year like a burnt-out exec coming up to retirement. By now, it really ...

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Three local teens took home prizes in the Carpinteria Valley Association’s climate change essay contest: Evelyn Calkins, Anna Morrison and Luka Donahue.

Because of this, culture is an active part of the agenda of the G20 global economic forum. Under the presidency of South ...

Wednesday is the deadline for the Earth Day Essay challenge.It’s the 5th year of the challenge hosted by the Attorney General’s office.It’s open to 4th through 6th graders including home-schoolers.

Across the country, education leaders are being forced to make some tough decisions — to choose between defending core values such as equity and historical truth, or yielding to political coercion in ...

If you’re an assiduous notetaker, you know that it’s hard to put a price on a great writing tablet ... I have two issues with the reMarkable 2, but they’re both very minor.