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  • How to Recognize a Bad Teacher

    How to Recognize a Bad Teacher0

    The sign of a good music teacher, I was told as a teenager, is a willingness to allow parents to sit in on lessons. A teacher willing to have parents observe their lessons demonstrates that she has nothing to hide, is open to critique or comments, and is one who partners with parents in helping

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  • ‘Racism’ Is a Matter of Definition

    ‘Racism’ Is a Matter of Definition0

    Discrimination is part of everyday life, and though it often carries a negative connotation, it is an essential practice. For example, we discriminate against the kinds of TV programs or people we don’t like, between fact and fiction, and among activities of varying risk. But discrimination is an act; before that, it is an opinion.

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  • Excellence: Race, Merit, and Our Young People

    Excellence: Race, Merit, and Our Young People0

    When Joe Biden and crew were seeking a vice-presidential candidate for the ticket, Biden stipulated that he would only look at women of color. A curious voter might ask: Isn’t such a requirement sexist and racist? Suppose you were running for president. You appear on national television and state you would only accept a white

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  • Why the Worst Rise to the Top in Politics

    Why the Worst Rise to the Top in Politics0

    The coronavirus pandemic has hit the state of New York especially hard. Almost 33,000 New Yorkers have died from the virus, more total deaths than any other state in the country. And New York ranks as the second-worst state for deaths when adjusted for population. The Empire State alone accounts for one in five coronavirus

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  • Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other

    Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other0

    A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective. In the course of two weeks,

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  • Fancy a Vaginoplasty? Think Again.

    Fancy a Vaginoplasty? Think Again.0

    The popular feminist website Jezebel has a blog with the expressive title of “Barf Bag”. It covers American politics in the age of Trump – but an investigative feature which Jezebel published last week, “When surgeons fail their trans patients” must have had readers reaching for one. The focus of journalist Katelyn Burns’ investigation is a surgeon

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