October 10, 2025“I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost, from “The Road…
August 1, 2025Millions of words have been thrown at the vexing question; what’s wrong with boys and men? Boys are comparably…- May 2, 2025This week’s NYT Magazine features a long bit of education arcana twirled by Paul Tough, the Canadian-American author who popularized “relentless perseverance”…
- January 31, 2025“Curiosity killed the cat.” Among the world’s most foolish aphorisms, this one stands out. It is quite likely that…
- July 26, 2024In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from…
June 7, 2024Well, that didn’t take long. Following the short burst of SAT-optional college admission policies spawned by the pandemic, the…
March 17, 2024The numbing ubiquity of human despair and political idiocy is enough to get a guy down. I spend far too…
January 5, 2024New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote this week about the threats to our democratic republic: Democracy, remember, is…
November 24, 2023“This car climbed Mt. Washington.” This bumper sticker is commonly seen in New England and refers to the highest peak…- September 22, 2023An article this week in Chalkbeat Tennessee told of Kamryn Sanders, an 8-year-old Memphis 3rd grader who walked out her…
