J. W. Traphagan

Professor

J. W. Traphagan is a Professor in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent book is Embracing Uncertainty: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures.

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BURN, PEOPLE, BURN

Why We Love Taking Part in Online Pile-Ons

When you’re performing how righteous you are—and how wrong the bad person is—the viciousness is the point.

George Styles

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MORE, MORE, MORE

The Next College Campus Scandal Will Be Written By AI

Researchers facing pressure from higher education administrators and publishers are using OpenAI to write their papers. This will produce worse work, and lots more of it.

J. W. Traphagan

REWRITING HISTORY’S NOVELS

Sanitizing ‘Problematic’ Old Books Doesn’t Protect Anyone

How will modern readers know the good, the bad, and the ugly of the past’s authors and prose if we won’t let them read it?

J. W. Traphagan

SUNSET OF THE OLDS

I’m a Boomer. Young People Don’t Have Much to Learn From Us.

Age and experience don’t necessarily mean we have unique insights into a completely different world than the one in which we grew up.

J. W. Traphagan

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HATERS GONNA HATE

Here’s Why You Need to Get Hated on Twitter

You will lose followers, your beliefs will be challenged, but you may just improve society along the way.

George Styles