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  • The Sort of Men We Need

    The Sort of Men We Need6

    A new book by Mark Helprin is like a surprise gift from St. Nick, so when I spotted The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, a War Story, a Love Story on the “New Book” shelf of my public library, I snagged that gift, headed for the checkout desk, and opened it as soon

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  • The solution to school debt? Prostitution.

    The solution to school debt? Prostitution.0

    The old joke calls prostitution “the world’s oldest profession”. Alas, in our ever-changing world of words, some of today’s prostitutes prefer a different term: “Sugar Baby”. It’s all about marketing, right? From the NY Post: “After a sushi dinner a few years ago, the date of Sara-Kate, then a college student living in Boston, suggested

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  • The Solution to Poverty Isn’t Charity. It’s Opportunity

    The Solution to Poverty Isn’t Charity. It’s Opportunity0

    When we fall ill, our bodies give us symptoms to signal to our brains that trouble is afoot. A fever, for example, lets us know that our body is working in overdrive to fight off some sort of infection. While it may be causing us tremendous discomfort, we know that the fever itself is not the

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  • The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More

    The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More0

    The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases showing the same trend, especially over the past three years, the solution proposed by many education reformers and advocates is to double-down on the amount of schooling and school-like activities students get.  “The greatest challenge

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  • The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?

    The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0

    Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. The above is an excerpt from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s

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  • The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

    The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’4

    In 1971, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with “no heaven,” “no hell,” “no religion,” and “nothing to kill or die for.” Thirty-six years later, the piano on which he wrote that iconic anthem embarked on a “symbolic road trip for peace” that took it to sites of violence and persecution around the

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