So I asked for someone to point out flaws in that study of day care in Quebec I blogged on the other day, purporting to show significant negative effects from the introduction of a heavily subsidized daycare program. Linda Hirshman, (who I'm becoming quite the...
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Alright, so I am now in the city after an entirely intraweb-free week in the Vallee Du Rhone, tanned, rested, and carrying several bottles of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape (personal to customs agents:.
Read, if you haven't already, A.O. Scott's wonderful meditation on The Searchers. I've written about the Searchers before, and I'm not the only one; Lance and Wolcott had a back.
This post is primarily for that segment of our readership who are students, teachers, or textbook authors/publishers for High School American Government courses.Students: Listen carefully. I have reason to believe that your teacher or textbook is trying to tell you that PETA, or People for...
DJW and I are in Fort Collins, again grading AP exams. Little has changed since last year, although I understand that next year we'll be moving to Daytona, which promises.
I gather from the headlines that there's already been plenty of discussion of the Supreme Court's decision regarding the knock-and-announce rule, but I'll add my voice to the chorus.I don't.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
A couple of weeks ago the Cunning Realist wrote:This has probably been discussed at great length elsewhere, and undoubtedly will strike some as a dumb question. But before tonight was.
Yglesias is politely engaging Jonathan Chait, who suggests Leiberman should be supported not because he's a good Senator, but in order to strengthen the position of unrepentent pro-Iraq war Democrats.
My dear friend Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista, as she so often does, asked a very interesting question,"when lefties talk about sex with students, even the administrators, they tend to design that conversation around sharing statistical or biological information, but shy away from the more...
It looks like feminists of various stripes are back to debating Linda Hirshman's claim that women of a certain socioeconomic status who opt to stay home and raise their kids.
I’ve just finished reading the article Lizardbreath links to at the TAP by Hirshman. There’s much to admire there, and more than a few lines that make me want to.