250 years ago, and 200 years ago
We’re celebrating 1776 on this coming July 4, but events from 1825-1827 also resonate as a lesson as to whether…
CODEPINK makes progress to bring antisemitic politics into K–12 classrooms
CODEPINK, the activist group known for anti-war protests, is now turning its attention to American schools. And that should alarm…
America’s greatest gift to our children
After more than twenty years in the classroom, I have learned that children naturally think about tomorrow. Read more The…
The history of white flight and gentrification
Nothing has been lied about more than the cause and impact of white flight. Likewise, the same could be said…
Here’s why women like gay movies
It’s probably exaggerated by those with perversions, but, supposedly, there’s a proliferation of gay-themed movies. Women are especially titillated by…
Point of no return
Volkswagen is planning to eliminate up to 100,000 jobs. It is the most devastating blow yet to the stomach of…
Yesterday’s purges, today’s primaries
It was this week back in 1934 that we experienced something called Night of the Long Knives: Read more Chavez’s…
Chavez’s fatal legacy
As of this writing, 68,000 people were missing after the devastating June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela. We are well past…
Faithful to the alarm, inauthentic to the science
In two recent essays I argued that modern public panic follows a repeatable pattern: detect something, strip away quantitative context,…
Trump is giving me whiplash
2015: Donald Trump announces for president. Donald T? Really? All I knew of him was what I saw on the…