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The EduSkeptic's Guidebook 1.0
My recent post on education and optimism bias received a lot of attention, mostly positive. It occurred to me that, as I’ve written so much on this topic, it may be hard for new readers to get caught up. So here I’m laying out my gloss on the overall state of American education…
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You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
As I get older, explicitly political questions interest me less and less, and I’m motivated more and more to write about human conditions that are, in a sense, pre-political. I feel that intensely when it comes to the various conversations that we’re having about the role of…
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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
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Digest, 3/26/2023: The Past is Epilogue
the eighty-sixth digest post
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It's So Sad When Old People Romanticize Their Heydays, Also the 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive
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Covid Panic is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition
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Why Irony, Bro?
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You Get Better at Being Psychotic
Long-troubled actress Amanda Bynes has apparently been checked into a psychiatric facility to address the mental illness that has plagued her for years…
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Education Commentary is Dominated by Optimism Bias
What follows is a piece that I was commissioned to write for an education publication called The Grade. On submission they declared that the piece was…
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Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means
I'd rather use any other term at this point, but can we get real please?
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Subscriber Open Thread, 3/14/2023
If you're looking for a prompt, here's one: if home mortgage lenders will only lend up to the appraised value of a house, how do people ever bid…
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Review: The Best Minds, by Jonathan Rosen
There was a time when Michael Laudor was one of the most prominent mentally ill people in the United States, and by extension, the world. The youngest…
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Digest, 3/12/2023: House in Hand
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Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand
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Covid Panic is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition
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