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WHY 12th-graders score so badly on math and reading (and everything else)
Dana Goldstein was one of the journalists who reported [1] the latest bad news about the sorry state of literacy and numeracy among American high-school…
Sep 20
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COVID Mismanagement
My review of In Covid’s Wake - How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee has been published in the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of…
Sep 7
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What made America great?
Individuals “at the grass roots”, “regular”, “ordinary”, people, taking initiatives and taking responsibility so that the right thing got done, despite…
Sep 7
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Sinners in glass houses throw stones as babies are discarded wholesale with the bath water
We watch in dismay.
Sep 2
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August 2025
The proper study of mankind is man
The title of this essay is the second line in Alexander Pope’s discussion (in the form of a long poem [1]) of the range of characteristic behaviors…
Aug 27
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The Death of Common Sense
Barzun had [1] characterized the book [2] of this title as ” The book to read” about laws and regulations, so I did — very belatedly, since that book…
Aug 7
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HIV/AIDS: a perfect storm that continues to rage
Liberal democratic societies can and do handle a certain measure of ignorance, of incompetence, of dishonesty, of single-issue activism, of bureaucracy…
Aug 5
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July 2025
Orthodoxy inevitably suppresses dissent:
Can books be banned surreptitiously?
Jul 26
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How serious errors persist in modern science and medicine
Becoming a doctor or a researcher or a scientist nowadays begins with a dozen or more years of training and education following high school: four years…
Jul 21
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Loch Ness: Well known misinformation, little known truths
During the 1930s, the global mass media decided that the Loch Ness Monster existed only as a persistent hoax, and that view entered also into such…
Jul 16
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JEREMIAD
on an ending to the world as we have until recently known it
Jul 5
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June 2025
Internet: can the benefits outweigh the damage?
The internet offers great benefits in using large databases and in helping scholarly communication and the like; and it is a marvelous assistant to…
Jun 12
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