education as suicide?
I’m a proponent of public education. There’s really no reason as far as I can tell to attend private schools other than: You have special religious or cultural needs that cannot be addressed by public schools (your kids need to be indoctrinated in your faith, etc.) Your local public schools suck beyond measure and you [...]
The Next Slum?
At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, 81 of the community’s 132 small, vinyl-sided houses were in foreclosure as of late last year. Vandals have kicked in doors and stripped the copper wire from vacant houses; drug users and homeless people have furtively moved in. In December, [...]
return to waterworld
The movie before the day after tomorrow: But if Waterworld opened viewers’ eyes to the catastrophic possibilities of climate change, would that make the $200 million seem like money better spent? (Consider that a former World Bank chief economist has advocated spending $600 billion per year to mitigate climate change.) Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert has [...]
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