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• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Collapsing Into Nothing   2 days, 16 hours ago
  

  As something of a nerdy birthday present to myself, I downloaded J.J. Abram’s re-imagined Star Trek movie the other day from iTunes. If you haven’t seen it, it’s quite good; it’s visually stunning, action packed and actually funny. The plot itself is a bit hard to describe (there’s some time travel/alternate reality stuff going [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Community Colleges Being Forced to Turn Away Students Because of High Demand   1 week ago
  

  Following up on my post from last week about surging enrollments at community colleges, the New York Times ran a story last week about how the crush is affecting local schools:

  Historically, the city’s six community colleges, which are part of the City University of New York, have taken applications until about a week before the [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: The Return of the Paranoid Style in American Politics   1 week, 3 days ago
  

  I must confess to the fact that I’ve never read Richard Hofstadter’s classic work, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, cover to cover. However, I feel like I’ve read enough to know that, were he alive, Hofstadter would probably be morbidly fascinated by how presciently he’d described our current political moment.

  Of the paranoid style, Hofstadter [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Community Colleges Driving Record Enrollment Numbers   2 weeks ago
  

  A recent report released by the Pew Research Center revealed that almost 40 percent of the nation’s 18-24-year-olds were enrolled in college last October, a record number driven in large part by an increase in the number of students attending community colleges.

  The increase in enrollment at community colleges closely correlates with the poor economic conditions [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Much Ado About Very Little   2 weeks, 4 days ago
  

  One of the main reasons I decided to pursue a career in journalism was to try, perhaps in vain, to correct something I often see in the media, which is the easy acceptance of narratives pushed by one group or another in service of advancing their agenda. I understand the appeal if you’re a reporter. [...]

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