by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 16, 2019 | Culture, Education, Politics
The interruption of a stand-up comic’s performance by event organizers at Columbia University late last year served, obviously, as a reminder that college campuses remain places of intolerance and hostility to anything resembling diversity of thought. Nimesh...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 11, 2019 | Education, Opinion, Politics
Several seemingly unrelated policies being instituted in New York City illustrate the same cycle: the elimination of “color blind” testing for elite schools, the restricting of charter schools, and the restricting of smartphone ride-sharing. Their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 10, 2019 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
A “you couldn’t make this up” imbroglio has been roiling in New York City this year. It involves Mayor De Blasio’s efforts to change the way admissions to New York City’s handful of “elite” public high schools – the gems...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 22, 2019 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
Back in the days of my (relative) youth, aka my mid-20s, my extended circle of friends included someone (John, I believe was his name) who sang in a band. In a group conversation one day over beers, I found out that he never learned to play an instrument, despite...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 19, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Education, Politics
There’s an old joke that goes, “Those that can, do. Those that cannot, teach. Those that cannot teach, administrate.” While, superficially, it’s a knock on teachers, it needn’t and shouldn’t be taken that way. How many coaches do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2019 | Economics, Education, Politics, Taxation
The great thinker Milton Friedman, in a seminal interview with Phil Donahue, exposed one of the great, under-addressed flaws in the premise of socialism and its other central-planning variants: the fact that the people in charge are no different than the people they...
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