news that stays news - What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with Bonhoeffer or Simone Weil or John Donne or Pascal — things that happened this very term — it’s all new to them.” // Or: every second someone new is born who’s never watched The Flintstones.