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A Linguist’s Analysis of the Redskins Defense
For more than 20 years now, an unending procession of Native American groups have objected to the name of the Washington Redskins football team. The fact that we are still treating their complaint as something that warrants …
Early Decision: Better for Colleges Than for Students
Early decision — you apply to one school, and admission is binding — seems like a great choice for nervous applicants. Schools let in a higher percentage of early-decision applicants, which arguably means that you have a …
What Schools Can Do to Help Boys Succeed
If boys are restive and unfocused, we must look for ways to help them do better. Here are three suggestions
Universal Pre-K Won’t Solve Vocabulary Gap (Or Inequality)
Results show just how hard it is for the government to compensate for poor learning environments at home
How To Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prizes
The mother of tweens was folding laundry at 5 a.m. before going to an early spinning class when the phone rang. It was October 2009 and Carol Greider, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University, picked up and heard a voice from …
Can’t Anyone Here Read a Map?
In losing our ability to navigate, we’ve lost all sense of our surroundings — both in physical space and in public-policy debate
Assange Biopic Ignores Sexual-Assault Allegations
Filmmakers have given us a redacted history of Julian Assange—exactly the kind that WikiLeaks set out to dismantle
Tyler Cowen’s 10 Reasons Texas Is Our Future
It’s big. It’s hot. It’s cheap. And, according to Tyler Cowen, it’s where America’s ‘new cowboys’ are blazing a path for the nation to follow
Don’t Just Talk. Listen to Your Baby Too
New campaigns to increase the number of words young children hear should focus on real conversations too
The SATs Should Bring Back Analogies
A mastery of words paves the way to serious reading, while the writing test only paves the way to semiliterate prose.
Migration Trends of the Future
The United States has been shaped in very large part by surges of migration, from the Scots-Irish who streamed over in vast numbers in the dozen years before the American Revolution until today. These surges have been largely …
JFK Was a Political Conservative
His image as a big-spending liberal is a widespread myth that needs correcting