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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
What makes a radical?
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It took several months, but a copy of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young , the autobiography of Zayd Ayers Dohrn, the son of late 1960s We...
Saturday, August 15, 2026
False premises
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It's an irony of my life that while I wanted as much or more than anything to belong to some kind of larger institution that shared my ...
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Monday, August 03, 2026
A footnote
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Several weeks ago I commented favorably on Texas's new K-12 reading curriculum. Here is a similar comment by a well-informed commentat...
Friday, July 24, 2026
A Texas Experiment
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Our educational establishment, it seems, has catastrophically failed the nation's public schools over the last few decades. Despite th...
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
"Testing, testing. . . ."
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The Boston Globe ran a piece recently about a controversy in the Cambridge Public Schools. The issue is not unique to Cambridge, and its ...
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