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Justin Grosslight

Book Review: Up Close and Personal? — “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”

With journalistic flair, The Years That Matter Most brilliantly shows how, in terms of college opportunities, the scales of justice tilt in favor of the wealthy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: ACT, Admissions, College, College Board, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, How College Makes or Breaks Us, Justin Grosslight, Mobility, Paul Tough, SAT, The Years the Matter Most

Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology

Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Belt and Road, China, Globalism, Justin Grosslight, Singapore, The Future is Asian: Commerce Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century

Book Review: A Whirlwind Journey from Memory to Reason — Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 17th-century, England, English Virtuosi and Early Modern Science, history of science, history of the book, Justin Grosslight, Notebooks, Richard Yeo

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