The Book

“There’s only one technology in schooling that has really delivered on its transformative promise: the humble book. Once upon a time, students could learn only from local teachers, and only when within earshot of them. The invention of the printing press allowed...

Democratic Circuses

Singer songwriter, Paul Simon wrote in, The Boxer, that “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”. This is human nature, and we are all guilty, as charged. But if we know we are guilty, then we know we must learn to hear what we do not want to hear....

Media Fictions

“The media are less a window on reality than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.” – Paul Weaver

Ethnic Obsession

“The genius of the civil-rights movement was its advocacy for colorblind policies and a universal standard of conduct. By contrast, today’s diversity experts want all of us, white and nonwhite, to fixate on our ethnic identities, to obsess over accidents of race and...