Opinion
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School Is for Wasting Time and Money
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling. My argument in a nutshell: First, everyone leaves…
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School Is for Learning to Read
The most important thing schools can do is teach children how to read. If you can read, you can learn…
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School Is for Everyone
For the majority of human history, most people didn’t go to school. Formal education was a privilege for the Alexander…
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School Is for Merit
In 1982, as a 5-foot-0 teen at Morgantown High School in the foothills of West Virginia’s Appalachians, I stepped forward…
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School Is for Making Citizens
Why do we have public schools? To make young people into educated, productive adults, of course. But public schools are…
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Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe
In the months leading up to its premiere this Friday, Amazon Prime’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of…
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‘Defund the Police’ Is Dead. Now What?
Some said it was dumb. Some thought it was politically disastrous. Some thought it was being unfairly demonized and mischaracterized.…
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Could the Courts Block Biden’s Student Loan Relief Plan?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. Last week,…
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Gov. Jay Inslee Is Taking a Well-Earned Climate Victory Lap
The landmark Inflation Reduction Act isn’t even a month old, and though internecine fights continue about its estimated value and…
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Is Harry Styles Co-opting a Queer Identity?
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