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Diane Ravitch and the higher “moderation”
Diane Ravitch with Jon Stewart, March 2011 [Added 5-29-2011: As I write this, the UFT and the NAACP are attacking charter schools and supporting multiculturalism.] Diane Ravitch (often considered the...
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Mark Twain’s failed Yankee
Soviet poster When a writer chooses a name suggesting that two personas occupy one body (as in the nom de plume Mark Twain), the reader should take this self-definition seriously. Years ago, Dr. David...
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Diagnosing POTUS
President as Antifederalist? Depending on the speaker, the President is either incompetent (“in over his head”); suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder (“arrogant” or “out of touch”); a...
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“Totalitarianism,” polarization, and single-issue politics
Polarization. Pundits and politicians today often complain about “polarization” as an obstacle to “compromise,” without acknowledging that there may be irreconcilable conflicts that cannot be mediated,...
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The Frontiersman/Settler as all-purpose scapegoat
As everyone knows who has followed this website, I have been trying to separate the early progressives from the post-New Left progressives, all the while noting shifts in the Leninist line. I have used...
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