Education as if Truth Mattered
- Education
- March 2, 2016
The great martial artist Bruce Lee reputedly said that all mistakes are forgivable—if one has the courage to admit the mistake.
Paul Fenyves, a primary care physician in New York City who specializes in internal medicine, seems to have learned …
READ MOREOn Feb. 7, 1968, after American military forces rained rockets, napalm, and bombs on the village of Ben Tre in South Vietnam, killing hundreds of civilians, Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett quoted a military officer’s justification of the event.
“It …
READ MORESeptember has arrived and many children are back in public schools (though fewer than previous years).
At a recent event, one parent joked to me we’re now officially in “vaccine season.” The comment made me laugh, but there’s at …
READ MOREDuring the 1960s, the phrase “the personal is political” became a rallying cry for second-wave feminists challenging the social framework that existed at the time.
There was an unhealthy collectivist undercurrent to this idea—“There are no personal solutions …
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