All too often, students from nonmaterially privileged backgrounds assume a position of passivity — they behave as victims...

As configured by the Whitney curatorial assistant Sasha Nicholas, that small room reveals a tender, personal side of Demuth that remains hidden among the comparatively impersonal factoryscapes in the front room.

The local paper has just released the results of what can only be described as a push poll. The pollsters fed numerous cherry-picked data points and statistics to respondents before asking their opinions on newly proposed government policies. There can be no doubt that the results would have been different had those interviewed not been led to the conclusions the pollsters wanted.

That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.