Stuff I Read This Week - November 16

• Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing | The College Fix  Okay, folks, this labeling of non-supported speech as "violence" really needs to stop.  




• Why Male Teachers Left Elementary Schools And Won't Go Back | The Federalist  K-12 is a zone where men are increasingly left to specific segregated spaces.  I have a whole long argument here about how this carries all the way into higher ed, but I'll save that for another time.




• Peer Review Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal  If academia remains the "cool kids club" for a certain group, it will be ultimately destroyed and replaced with something else.  No one wants that, not even me.




• Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground—so it hired 22 high school students instead: ‘Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination.’  What did I just tell you?  




• The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean | Mises Institute  It's easy to play politics.  It's hard to govern.  Also, those who do not learn must feel...




• Yes, Heather Cox Richardson Is Economically Illiterate – And Proud of It | Mises Institute  Please don't get me started with how historians believe they actually know about economics.   The economists often just give them the same look of exasperated bemusement as Sheldon Cooper was wont to give his associates.

Stuff I Read This Week - November 2

 Another round of off-the-clock opinions.  Your agreement is voluntary; your civility is not.

• Failing cities like Chicago should heed Ken Griffin’s warning: No tax base, no money (The Hill)  --welcome to Texas, be prepared to pay out the wazoo in property taxes, especially if you bring previous preferences for high-tax services with you. 

• The Coming AI Cataclysm (Compact Magazine) There's a lot here to unpack, but pay attention to where it talks about K-12 students and what I call the Value-Added of the Human Touch.

• The Appeal of the Campus Right (The Atlantic) I kept telling people even Way Back When that Trump was a symptom, not a cause.  Those who do not learn, must feel...

• Why I no longer engage with Nature publishing group (Heterodox STEM) I have also been musing for years about Lysenkoism, in more than one field.

• ‘We’re coming after you’ — how the left found peace through hate (The Hill) I have had to cut some people loose, including someone who was dear to me, because this sickness infected their souls.

• And the specific issue that got the person cut loose? Rethinking How We Misthink the Holocaust (Elder's Substack).  "Fine, if I'm going to be compared to Hamas when I criticize the Jews, then I hate all Jews.  They should hit the showers!" And those were some of the last words I heard that person speak.  

• "Why I reject 'No Enemies to the Right.' " (National Review) Sickness can spread, and we must guard against being the very thing we condemn.

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