Did you see the Trump Axios interview? I mean did you SEE it? The academic term for that is “bonkerballs.” Honestly, I have never seen such a wild display of a combination of incompetence and complete denial of reality in such a short, compact amount of time. Jonathan Swan deserves an award for not allowing his eyes to pop out of his head in shock at what he was hearing. But I don’t know. Maybe he’s used to it by now. [Read More]
Episode Seventeen – Opening Arguments: What to Do About Schools
If you haven’t heard the roaring arguments about opening up schools in America over the last few weeks you must have been living under a rock. And this is about schools at all levels – the argument about opening schools ranges from kindergarten to the university level. This is coming to a head right now as some schools, like the Jefferson City Schools in Georgia, opened up this last week with no mask mandate. [Read More]
The Lost Year
The country of Bolivia has straight-up canceled its school year. It’s just – POOF – gone. They want to contain the virus and they say most of their kids don’t have the internet at home so remote learning isn’t an option so they’ve just shut the whole thing down. [Read More]
Episode Sixteen – Ruptured Communities, AOC, and Misogyny
We’re going to talk about some things that are pretty personal this week. And you’re going to hear the kind of language you don’t normally hear on this podcast. But that’s not because I’m trying to change the tone – it’s because it’s the kind of language women hear every day, for the most mundane reasons. Abuse against women is so normal, so par for the course, that many people just consider it “every day” kind of stuff. [Read More]
Episode Fifteen – Free Speech and #Cancelled
People have been talking a lot about “cancel culture” in the last few weeks. A listener, Ashley Edwards, who is an amazing pedagogue and has a lot of really valuable things to say – you can find her on Twitter at DrAshleyEdwards, requested we address this issue, so we are going to talk about free speech today and to what extent you have it and how and why. [Read More]