I read so much misguided press and frantic conversations about ChatGPT and its clones writing papers for high school and college students that it makes me wonder how so many “literates” and arguably ...

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Thirteen years ago, at the height of the June Virginia heat, we stood in front of our family and friends and repeated these traditional vows to each other, “To have and to hold from this day forward, ...

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Ellen Blum Barish (C81, GJ84) is a Chicago-area writer and adjunct writing instructor at Northwestern. Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at letters@northwestern.edu.