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Column: Meaning and knowledge: Why stories beat facts Modified: 4/17/2021 10:10:02 PM What are called “conspiracy theories” are not theories at all but stories about deception in high places. And because they are stories they cannot be refuted by facts. The story that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump remains compelling to many Americans in the face of myriad facts and arguments arrayed against it. Many kinds of popular stories, it turns out, are immune from refutation by argument. To see why, we need to understand how stories differ from arguments. Stories are devices to make sense of events: they aim at meaning. Arguments are devices to discover the truth: they aim at knowledge. ....
Column: Dartmouth puts its music library on the chopping block Modified: 2/23/2021 10:20:12 PM A few days after it announced a $75 million renovation for the Hopkins Center for the Arts, to be carried out by the Norwegian design firm Snøhetta, Dartmouth College announced it would be permanently closing the Paddock Music Library and the Kresge Physical Sciences Library. The decision renders Dartmouth the only Ivy League school without a music library. The college’s clinical, corporate news release included the following line: “High-use material from the Kresge and Paddock collections will be relocated to Baker-Berry over the coming months with the remainder of the collections to be housed in the library’s offsite shelving facility and available by request.” ....
Column: Dartmouth must remove Leon Black’s name Modified: 2/23/2021 10:30:11 PM The last two weeks of January were not good for the Dartmouth College brand. The good news for the college is that the debacle in athletics pushed the more virulent headline off the front page. What was that headline about? It was about changing the name of the Black Family Visual Arts Center, a very public and broadly used space. That’s Leon Black, the billionaire CEO of Apollo Global Management and former Dartmouth trustee. The same Leon Black who maintained a long personal and business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and alleged sex trafficker who died in August 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York while awaiting trial. A relationship that continued well after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea in Florida for soliciting a teenage girl for prostitution, which Black was well aware of. ....