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Month: April 2024
NYTimes.com: The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion/working-class-wealthy-legislators.html?smid=em-share
What Putin’s No. 2 Believes About the West
A secret-service overlord’s delusional outlook becomes the party line in Russia—with global implications.
We’re All Reading Wrong
To access the full benefits of literature, you have to share it out loud.
We’re All Reading Wrong
To access the full benefits of literature, you have to share it out loud.
NYTimes: Colleges Have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.
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The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.
*** NYTimes.com: Israel Has a Choice to Make: Rafah or Riyadh
Israel Has a Choice to Make: Rafah or Riyadh
Israel is facing one of the most fateful choices it has ever had to make.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/israel-war-rafah-riyadh.html?smid=em-share
*** NYTimes.com: Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction
Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction
Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments — but very little about the former president’s conduct.
**** The Trumpification of the Supreme Court
The conservative justices have shown they are ready to sacrifice any law or principle to save the former president.