In honor of the changing of the guard at Slate (the fabulous new editor, Julia Turner, is Slate‘s first female editor in history! Hooray!), I would like to offer the following homage to David Plotz, who helmed the site when the following ten articles were very popular/incited minor shitstorms. He once emailed me to tell me he “LOVE LOVE LOVE[D]” my work, and I shall cherish that email until my dying day.
- “Trader Joe Has a Brother. He’s Even Better.” (145K FB shares)
- “The End of the College Essay” (49K)
- “The Clever Stunt Four Professors Pulled To Expose the Outrageous Pay Gap in Academia” (47K)
- “Thesis Hatement” (39K)
- “Needs Improvement” (27K)
- “PowerPointless” (23K)
- “Doing Higher Ed Right” (19K)
- “Confessions of a Grade Inflator” (18K)
- “This Crazy Supermarket Commercial Provides a Window into German Culture” (10K)
- “The Ghosts of Kafka Present” (10K)
