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Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter’s education
There’s a great deal of commentary around the blogosphere on this article by Nikole Hannah-Jones in The New York Times Magazine. You remember NHJ, don’t you? She was the mind behind the 1619 Project, the duplicitous Times rewriting of the … Continue reading →
Writers write
I am so grateful for your many heartfelt and touching condolences. Thinking about the question of when to resume writing the blog, I think it’s a good idea for me to just plunge in – maybe not at quite the … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/22/2026
Spring and Fall – to a young child By Gerard Manley Hopkins Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older … Continue reading →
I plan …
… to resume posting either Monday night or some time on Tuesday. Thank you for your beautiful condolences.
Continue reading →Grieving
He was a presence in my life for nearly sixty years – first as young boyfriend, then as husband, then as ex-husband. But always, always, a central figure. And how he is gone. He had some health problems, to be … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/19/2026
The case against AI doom
I’d rather the world not be destroyed by AI, so I’m heartened by this. An excerpt: Here are the main counterarguments: * Intelligence does not imply agency: A system can be extraordinarily capable at prediction, theorem proving, engineering, programming, etc. … Continue reading →
News roundup
(1) We wouldn’t want a wonderful person such as this to be deported from Canada, now would we? A Haitian woman who disfigured a stranger in a Montreal-area biting attack has been given a reduced sentence by a Quebec judge … Continue reading →
Slightly overzealous comment filter
The new comments policy I instituted a while back has been working very well so far (knock wood) to block trolls. On the other hand, it’s a trifle overeager and sometimes blocks certain comments from regular comments for no reason … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/18/2026
Throwing money at schools doesn’t work …
… if you don’t apply it in a thoughtful way. New York, case in point: … New York public education is falling behind because the state has ignored chances to discover what educational practices really work, use that evidence to … Continue reading →