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“Powerful Interests”

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 14, 2019

Did you know that Elizabeth Warren is in the pocket of “powerful interests?” She is if you are a charter school hack like Jonathan Chait, whose wife is a professional charter advocate. He doesn’t mention this of course in his eye-rolling concern tolling post about Elizabeth Warren selling out: Education reform. There may be no […]

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Does Rheeism Work? No, Except for Crushing Unions

By Erik Loomis

On June 3, 2016

Jonathan Chait wasn’t happy with my response to him last week, where I talked of his hackish Rheeist beliefs in destroying teacher unions and replacing them with charter schools. Of course, supp

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Chait Hates Teachers’ Unions! To the Fainting Couch!

By Erik Loomis

On May 26, 2016

There must have been some future teachers in activist groups at the University of Michigan 25 years ago, because Chait is taking ill-informed and gratuitous shots at teachers’ unions, blaming th

Chait and Socialism

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 18, 2016

Above: Why Jonathan Chait Can’t Sleep at Night Jonathan Chait can sometimes provide good political analysis and he’s certainly right about Delaware. But his primary take on the 2016 Democratic primary is that Marxism is back and it threatens it all. So it’s been embarrassing column after embarrassing column about this “issue.” Chait for instance […]