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.