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Earth to GOP: Get a Grip
In The Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens writes that conservatives should demand IQ tests of Republican candidates.
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Earth to GOP: Get a Grip
In The Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens writes that conservatives should demand IQ tests of Republican candidates.
This slideshow is a few years old, but it is a beautiful catalog of images of a benevolent and joyous global holiday…
Diwali 2009
October 17th marked the celebration of Diwali among Hindus and other groups around the world. Diwali is also known as the Festival of Lights (the name translates as “row of lamps” in Sanskrit).
I’ve spent the morning at a remarkable event: Edcamp Baltimore – a gathering of (mostly) teachers sharing knowledge, tips, and strategies in an unconference format. Coming from a family of teachers, I know how deadly “professional development” can be. This is an refreshing, hyper-productive alternative. I’m listening to teachers working out best practices gleaned from classrooms from Boston to Baltimore. Great work by our local organizers, particularly Jessica Gartner.
Important and hopeful observations from Walter Olson:
Why Many GOPers Quietly Backed Maryland Question 6 – Yes, Democratic voters did tend to favor the history-making same-sex marriage law, and Republicans did tend to oppose it. But that tends to conceal a more interesting story.
Everyone who has had a brush with academic life and/or is an alcoholic, will relish every page of Kingsley Amis’ Lucky Jim.
Take, for instance, his description of the main character’s hangover:
“[Jim] Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way… He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning… His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad”
Return of the Kingsley | The American Conservative
Prayers have been answered: Kingsley Amis’s novels Lucky Jim and The Old Devils are being reissued in the United States. The New York Review of Books Press has printed the new editions…
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