Bryan Lowder

Long before I was the editor in chief of Slate, I was a devoted reader, and Dear Prudence was at the top of my list of Slate favorites, along with departed features like The Breakfast Table (where two writers actually read the newspaper and discussed it), The Explainer (I know two people who wrote The Explainer and are still referred to by me as “The Explainer” rather than their actual name), and Egghead (a roundup of academic news I actually wrote as a young editor at a magazine called...

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