Education

David Brooks is as dumb as a box of rocks. You cannot improve students' ability to read and write while simultaneously refusing to fund the humanities. It, after all, the humanities that require reading and writing. No test replaces semester long projects and no neoliberal university gives a good god damn about reading and writing.

Great

It is one of the greatest songs ever:



Although more complicated, historically speaking, another great song:

Mandates

 Over to the NYRB, Ronald Dworkin makes what seems to me to be an air-tight case for the constitutionality of the ACA.