Justin Katz
Perhaps I’m just noticing examples more, of late, but there seems to be an increasing stream of worrying news items, such as the following, coming out of Russia: Russia’s armed forces chief of staff on Thursday described as “hallucinations” Georgia’s claim that Russian warplanes had violated its border on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported. Georgia,…
There’s something fun about this, but there’s also something just a bit creepy, too: Our fourth Mp3 Experiment was our biggest mission to date. 826 people downloaded the same mp3, pressed play at the same time, and had a blast together on Lower Manhattan’s beautiful waterfront. The video brings to mind the solitude in a…
Victor Davis Hanson takes a worthy (albeit brief) look at modern education and makes some suggestions: We should first scrap the popular therapeutic curriculum that in the scarce hours of the school day crams in sermons on race, class, gender, drugs, sex, self-esteem, or environmentalism. These are well-intentioned efforts to make a kinder and gentler…
Perhaps for the sake of being clever, John Derbyshire ignores a thing that is very odd for a conservative writer to ignore. Granted, the related twofold goals of his review of Robert Spencer’s book Religion of Peace? — Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t give him a narrow context in which to work. It would…
New Hampshire employs more public employees per citizen than Rhode Island does — so explained the Rhode Island NEA’s Bob Walsh in a comment to this post: Mike – Well, I am not a Marxist (unless Groucho counts) but I assume you know by now that the “New Hampshire” miracle is really the New Hampshire…
My Projo piece from last Friday is now up. I mention it for those who haven’t read it, for those who wish to read it in Projo html, for those who’d like to help me create the illusion that I can drive readership, for those who have the time and inclination to play “find the…
According to 7 to 7, none of the teachers’ unions in the eight districts that are currently without (or soon to be without) contracts are planning to strike: With Rhode Island schools scheduled to start opening next week, teacher unions in eight districts have not signed new contracts — including Providence, the state’s largest district,…
Commenting to my initial mention of my latest Providence Journal op-ed, Michael writes: I wonder why you find satisfaction in the “non-union” designation. I’ve worked for years in the construction trades and for the most part found union carpenters and their non-union counterparts have equal skills and ethics, only the union guys are making a…
… but this sort of news is beginning to sound less and less like a series of flukes: Libertyville-based DMH Ingredients has filed a federal lawsuit against Changzhou Kelong Chemical Co. Ltd., saying DMH found metal shavings in 11,200 kilos of aspartame artificial sweetener the Chinese company shipped in 2005. What’s going on over there?