And thank God that Dan does read the Post for me, because if I did have to read it myself I’d have the shakes even worse than I’ve got ‘em now. In his excellent substack site Eunomia, Dan alerted me to the Post’s most recent eruption, taking them to task in his post China Hawks…
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Paging Dr. Yeats! Paging Dr. Yeats!
Some time ago, I got so tired of reading about things “slouching towards Bethlehem”, or at least slouching somewheres, that I took upon myself to announce that no one, with the exception of Huckleberry Finn, would be allowed to use that verb, at once so affectedly literary and so uncouth that the poor word was…
A Limo at Risk, Part I: A skeptical view of American education reform, 1983-2017
(Author’s note: In the spring of 1996 I began to work as an editor/writer for a newly created non-profit called the “Education Statistics Services Institute,” whose sole function was to support the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education. I was assigned work on the National Assessment of Educational Progress,…
The Way We Were, and Why We Won’t Be Going Back There
Donald Trump from the right and Bernie Sanders from the left are leading the charge, not back to the future, but rather back to the past, a past that many if not most of their followers can’t even remember. This is why: As late as 1970, the “West”—basically, western Europe and North America—held an overwhelming…
It’s not too soon to tell that Paul Wolfowitz is a lying asshole
Yes, Paul Wolfowitz, everyone’s favorite lying asshole, is up to his old tricks again, acting like the lying asshole he is, claiming that “it is too soon to tell” if the invasion of Iraq was a good idea. After all, Paulie tells us, for decades after the Korean War ended, South Korea “struggled.” But sixty…
More from Dave
Awhile back I ran a post jumping off of David Brinkley’s book of reminiscences, Brinkley’s Beat. As I explained then, and I’ll explain now, David Brinkley was once one of the most famous men on television, co-anchor of the “Huntley-Brinkley Report,” the highest ranked news show on TV during the glory days of network television….