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They Gotta Score If They Wanna Put Points on the Board, Phil
As exercises in question-begging go, the sporting press is beat by the education beat, which ranks right beside conspiracy literature in treating the assumed validity of its own conclusions as a priori...
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How Hume’s Critique of the Social Contract and an Anarchist Critique of the...
Around 11:30 in this segment, Linda Lutton reports what is surely meant to be devastating revelation to people like you and me, people who catch bits of This American Life on the radio on the way to...
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You Can’t Spell Revenue By Principal Operations Without Venal
Diane Ravitch, now an indefatigable opponent of the weirdly popular idea that the proper formative model for The Children, Who Are the Future is a combination of factory feedlot and highway weigh...
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Valedictatorian
But while I have no problem with the idea that there should be consequences for Beverly Hall or Michelle Rhee or any other school chancellor who presides over cheating, I’m genuinely puzzled by what...
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Peeping Thomism
At some point in your youth, someone warned you that “this, young man, is going to go on your permanent record.” In my case, it was a high school vice principal. I’ve forgotten the infraction, but I...
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Small Fowls Screaming over the Yet Yawning Gulf
It was the last week of our Executive MBA program and we were drinking car bombs on the patio outside the fake Irish pub in Pittsburgh’s dull, chain-infected South Side Works development, a few blocks...
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We Like Ike, Man
I graduated from Oberlin College ten years ago, and if the college was in many ways an exemplar of the sort of economic inequality and unfairness that define the waking American dream, a charming oasis...
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The Won Percent
Oh, Jesus, you’re already thinking. Another one of those “when I was at Oberlin back in the good ol’ days” stemwinding openers. Fuck you. Get your own blog. When I was a whippety little undergrad at...
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The Culture
Today, as Summers notes, the economy seems mostly back to normal — but joblessness is still endemic. Growth simply isn’t producing enough jobs. This is a more severe and more urgent problem than...
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A Sulz on Women
A few brief thoughts on the New York Times-Sulzberger-Abramson affair. It’s awfully difficult to feel badly for income discrepancies where people are making hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of...
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Thee, N-Word
I’m as skeptical of safe spaces and trigger warnings as the next asshole, and I’m on the record comparing them to “the crystal vibrations of homeopathy and hypnotherapy,” but in that same post, and by...
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While White
Is my job just to respect your experience and accept your conclusions? –David Brooks Hey, don’t blame me; you hired me to write these several columns every week, and I must write each in a little...
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Vagina . . . Without Previous Approval
District officials sent WWMT a quote from a school handbook that says teachers are required to get approval before discussing any topic related to reproductive health. –The Washington Post The word...
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Cody
The children aren’t the future; they are now. My five-year-old, for instance, is concerned that five-year-olds in China will have learned integral calculus while he learns the cow goes moo. Father, he...
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Skinks for Rump
Milo Yiannopoulos, the sort of post-Warholian Z-list celebrity aspirant that the anti-social era of social media hocks up with silly frequency, is a public face—a mascot is maybe the better word—of an...
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Whatever It Is, I’m Against It
Mark Twain, like an twitter journalist claiming their child wondered how we could entrust the nuclear codes to a man who doesn’t understand the Triad, attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the now-famous...
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We Didn’t Start, We’re Fired
Blame millennials for the missing bar of soap. But blame their parents for the rest of it: the postwar settlement they turned to shit; the rising seas; the flattening and declining slope of income...
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Resident Chumps
What I felt when Donald Trump won the presidential election last night was weirdly akin to what I felt on 9/11—yes, that 9/11: not terror at a catastrophe whose suddenness and magnitude were...
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Thrown on the Sure
The past as precedent is overrated. Even its angel gazing back across the racked, wrecked pile of death and loss can never turn to see what it’s created now. The present is the wreck, abated briefly;...
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/pol/ite society
This is the future that liberals want: a cool return to norms after the tan excrescence is excised. Peace? Well, purity of essence. Articulate. Harvard Law or a comparable school. Personally dedicated...
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