Readings

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Peter Lovenheim

• The Comfort of a Digital Confidante, Navneet Alang

• Like. Flirt. Ghost., Ian Allen

• Look out– It’s Instagram Envy, Sarah Nicole Prickett

• The Agony of Instagram, Alex Williams

• Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, Sherry Turkle

​Videos

• Connected, but Alone?, Sherry Turkle at TED2012
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Readings

• What Makes Us Happy?, Joshua Wolf Shenk

• The Real Truth About Money, Gregg Easterbrook

• The Futile Pursuit of Happiness, Jon Gertner

• There's More to Life Than Being Happy, Emily Smith

• Social Connection Makes a Better Brain, Emily Esfahani Smith
   

Videos

Readings

• Schooled, Dale Russakoff

• Building a Better Teacher, Elizabeth Green

• Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools is Wrong, Kristina Rizga

• Against School, John Taylor Gatto

Videos

• Waiting for Superman

• How to Escape Education’s Death Valley, Ken Robinson, TED

• Our Failing Schools. Enough is Enough!, Geoffrey Canada, TED

Readings

• The Changing American Family, Natalie Anger
• The Childfree Life, Laura Sandler
• Modern Marriage: From Meal Ticket to Best Friend

Readings

• The Biggest Thing We Forget When We Talk About Food Justice, Monica White
• Fat’s What I’m Talking About, Tim Carman
• Morality Bites, Monica Eng
• Nature Spoils, Burkhard Bilger

Videos & Films

• What’s Wrong with What We Eat, Mark Bittman
• What’s Wrong with Our Food System, Birke Baehr
• Teach Every Child ABout Food, Jamie Oliver
• Food, Inc

Readings

• What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?, Paul Tough

• The Art of Failure, Malcolm Gladwell

• Be Wrong as Fast as You Can, Hugo Lindgren

Videos

• The Unexpected Benefit of Celebrating Failure, Astro Teller, TED

• Embrace the Near Win, Sarah Lewis, TED

• Harvard Commencement, J.K. Rowling

Readings

• Pell-Mell, Tom Wolfe

• America, My New-Found-Land, Tony Judt

• Just Asking, David Foster Wallace

• Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History, Joan Didion

• Fear and Loathing in las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

• The Me Decade, Tom Wolfe

• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Kiese Laymon

• America the Marvelous, A. A. Gill

Readings

• What is Poverty?, Jo Goodwin Parker

• The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More, DeNeen L. Brown

• Is it Now a Crime to Be Poor?, Barbara Ehrenreich

Videos

• Poor Kids, PBS Frontline

• Freakonomics

Readings

• Can’t Quit the Clicks: The Ride of Social Media Rehab, Mae Wiskin

• How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, Tristan Harris

• What is 'brain hacking'? Tech insiders on why you should care,
  Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes transcript
   

Videos

• How better tech could protect us from distraction, Tristan Harris at  TEDxBrussels

• How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day, Tristan Harris at TED2017

Readings

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• What No One Else Will Tell You About Feminism by Lindy West
• Why Women Still Can’t Have It All by Anne-Marie Slaughter
• No One ‘Has It All,’ Because ‘Having It All’ Doesn’t Exist by Lindy West
• The End of Men By Hanna Rosin
• Men Are Men by Tom Chiarella