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June 2015

June 07, 2015

Student loans: on that NYT piece. . .

There was a piece in the New York Times yesterday in which the author defended...

June 07, 2015

Where did Emma Sulkowicz come from?

Let's start with the old Detroit Institute of Arts commercial I remember from my childhood,...

June 06, 2015

The Other D-Day Story

Start with Ronald Reagan's "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech, at Real Clear Politics today....

June 06, 2015

The United Airlines case, and letting the Wookie win

You guys have heard about this, right? A woman wearing a headscarf claims discrimination because...

June 06, 2015

Stand up and tell ’em you’re from Detroit!

Yeah, I came across this old ad for the local news crew in Detroit, from...

June 05, 2015

Should you (or I) support the Quality Schools Tax Credit Act?

This is an Illinois thing. Here's a link to a site promoting it; this is...

June 04, 2015

Is this a game-changer? Garment-industry automation

Per The Economist, in a preview of their upcoming issue, as tweeted by them, "Made...

June 03, 2015

Why I remain a Catholic

Yeah, everyone at Patheos Catholic -- or many of us, anyway -- are writing on...

June 02, 2015

What does it mean to be a woman?

Not this. That is a link to the Vanity Fair article, with image, of the...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Minimum wage and the dignity of work

Here's something I typed up shortly after LA increased their minimum wage, and am now...

May 30, 2015

On Detroit, Jeb Bush is a little bit right. . .

Remember when I griped that some know-it-alls thought that the cure for what ails Detroit...

May 30, 2015

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + . . . = ?

So my kids have been watching "Numberphile" videos on youtube lately. Like this one:

May 29, 2015

Highland Park, or, you think Detroit is bad . . .

Funny, earlier today I speculated that devolving Detroit -- that is, letting certain parts of...

May 29, 2015

Devolving Detroit

Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a sovereign state...

May 28, 2015

Did you see this? “L.A. labor leaders seek minimum wage exemption for firms with union workers”

From the L.A. Times. Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide...

May 28, 2015

Eric Zorn declares victory

Chicagoland readers will recognize Eric Zorn as one of the Tribune's columnists, whose writing has...

May 27, 2015

STEM? STEAM? Get your own frickin’ acronym

The kids are in bed, or nearly so, so here are some further thoughts on this...

May 27, 2015

STEM into STEAM? Who knew? And: really? Or just rent-seeking?

Over the weekend, the newspaper featured, in its "family activity" listings, a set of activities...

May 26, 2015

In other wedding news: the average cost is . . .

Upwards of $30,000, right? Wrong. Slate (even the old blind sow. . .) had a...

May 26, 2015

What was it like to watch Saigon fall?

Here's instapundit, from this morning, with a particularly-extended pulling-together of links on Iraq and Syria,...

May 25, 2015

The End of the Line on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Three numbers: 2.3% 2.2% 1.8% That point to a major change in employer-sponsored health insurance...

May 25, 2015

Faux outrage, or sounding the alarm?

A couple days ago I registered my disapproval of the National Review's attempt to gain...

May 23, 2015

We finally saw Avengers: Age of Ultron

Yes, there are lots of articles out there on spiritual themes in the movie, including...

May 23, 2015

In case you want to talk about the Duggars

Here's an article (from a Patheos blog which appears to get way, way more traffic than...

May 22, 2015

Conchita Wurst: “He” or “She”?

It's Eurovision Song Contest time, and the media is revisiting last year's winner, Conchita Wurst,...

May 22, 2015

“Boy Scouting is Saved!”

So says Robert Gates, or, rather, that's a very loose paraphrase of his words at...

May 21, 2015

Lay off the Boy Scouts, would’ja?

National Review, which does try to be sensible for all that my left-of-center readers might...

May 21, 2015

Um, OK, so, let’s talk NFP: Persona, anyone?

Hey, readers! Look, I know that many of you aren't Catholic. But I also know...

May 21, 2015

Readers: your turn

It strikes me that moving to Patheos has had one surprising consequence: my commenter base...

May 20, 2015

Legislating AP credit: Higher Education bubble sign or . . .

Not long ago, I wrote about a plan afoot in my local school district/community college...

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