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This article was co-authored by Carole H. Browner, William I. Robinson, Aditi Bhargava, Lazlo Boros, Hugo Loaiciga, Roberto Strongman, Arvind Thomas, Anton Van Der Ven, Gabriel Vorobiof, and Patrick Whelan.
IntroductionA group of senior University of California professors was …
Dear Students and Parents:
Another school year is upon us.
For many people, including students, the Covid era seems to be over. That confusing, frightening, and traumatic time finally feels like a thing of the past.
However, the harms we …
It’s a modern fetish that we’re brilliant while our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn’t have iPhones, the Internet, or Kim Kardashian.
This is also academic consensus, for what it’s worth: called the Flynn effect, the idea is people …
The various approaches to education differ according to ideology – liberal, communist, and so on – and depending on what discipline is dominant at any given time. So, for example, in the 19th century, there was a time when the …
According to an old joke, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are enjoying some pastries in a Viennese coffee shop. The younger analyst hesitantly asks the elder: “Tell me, Herr Professor Freud… vat lies between fear und sex?”. With furrowed brow, …
Man in tricorn hat at Bicentennial celebration, July 1975; Diana Mara Henry, https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph051-s01a-i00035
My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches …
An unspoken maxim looms over the free speech crisis in our universities: it is only ever denied by those whose views fall in line with the current orthodoxy. For all its faults, and there were many, Britain’s previous government recognised …
In previous Brownstone Journal posts, I provided a view of American healthcare from the 30,000-foot level, and an experience I had back in 1978, while an internal medicine resident that had a profound impact on my subsequent professional practice. Today, …
Twenty years ago, as Director of Resident Education for the Department of Ophthalmology of a midwestern medical school, I was given a new task: transform our training program from structure-based to competency-based. There had been a sea change in medical …
Anthony Fauci actually concedes that he may have been mistaken?
Stop the presses!
It’s hard to believe considering the list of his policy failures, spectacular misinformation, and revisionist history is almost quite literally endless.
Yet in a recent media interview, Fauci …
A few nights back I had the pleasure of attending a Brownstone Supper Club presentation by Sheila Matthews-Gallo, the founder of AbleChild, an organization that fights against the widespread practice of plying our children—mostly boys—with psychotropic drugs in the name …
I can’t pinpoint the exact moment I decided to quit my post as an assistant librarian at a private school, but it was most probably when Andersen Press defended its decision to publish a book intended for under-sevens that contained …
The year is 2008. It’s break time, and my twin sister is a library monitor. A swell moves through the playground; packs of children are pulled like magnets to the big bay window of the library, where a note is …
The administrative class – at all levels, in all organizations – portrays itself as indispensable.
Nothing would get done without the smooth operation of the internal mechanics of a company, a government agency, any group you care to mention. Tasks must …
For all my Covid writing, I probably don’t do enough to publicize the heroes of our freedom movement or the victories “our side” has achieved.
One group that’s clearly made a profound difference – and saved countless lives – is …