My latest New Yorker article on Sidney Weinberg and the benefits of outsider-ness is now up on my website here: here
Since writing the piece, I've continued to think a fair amount about this idea of the advantages of disadvantages. If dyslexia can--under certain circumstances--be advantageous, what are other disadvantages that can have the same effect?
In the article, I mention, in passing, the question of class size, and the data on class size is really quite fascinating. Time and time agai
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