This post is a reflection on Edward Slingerland's new book Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization. John Tierney wrote a lovely review of the book in City Journal, which I'm reproducing below. Here's a link to the original. After the review, I provide some of my favorite passages from the … Continue reading Edward Slingerland on How Drinking Is Essential to Civilization
This is a piece I wrote a few years ago, which had been rattling around in my head for a long time. The issue is to figure out what role histories of education should play in the formation of educational policy. My short answer is that we should produce the histories we need rather than … Continue reading Why We Need Histories of Education
This post is an essay by Devon Halliday. Here's a link to the original. She's exploring an issue that I have addressed here -- the importance of making the first page of anything you're writing a real grabber. This is particularly a problem for academic writers, who tend to hold back the good stuff -- the … Continue reading Devon Halliday — How to Write a First Page that Grabs the Reader
This post is a piece I originally published in a 2000 book honoring David Tyack, Reconstructing the Good in Education: Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas. which was edited by Larry Cuban and Dorothy Shipps. Here's a link to a PDF of the chapter. I republished it as a chapter in my recent book, The Ironies … Continue reading No Exit: Public Education as an Inescapably Public Good
This post is an essay by Devon Halliday, "Literary Fiction Has Lost the Plot," recently published in her Substack. Here's a link to the original. I'm less interested in her critique of literary fiction, which I generally don't read, than in her tight focus on the need for writers to grab the reader on the … Continue reading Devon Halliday — Literary Fiction Has Lost the Plot
This post is an overview of the book I published two years ago. It’s available on Amazon both as an e-book and a paperback. The title is The Ironies of Schooling. It's available as both an e-book and paperback. As I did with my earlier book, Being a Scholar, I published this one myself using Kindle Direct … Continue reading The Ironies of Schooling
