Today I’ve got two articles up at Slate, and one of them, on the Digital Humanities, contains actual reporting and very little sass! WHA? Yessssssss it’s true, Rebecca Schuman is capable of being a professional journalist.

The other one is full of sass–it excoriates helicopter parenting and laments the subsequent the loss of sass, irreverence and weirdness at college. In it I also manage come off as a Caitlin-Flanagan-level square who tsktsks about binge drinking (although I do also have a link that makes fun of Caitlin Flanagan).