In which I reflect on Robert Frost.
I’m spending most of today on planes, heading to Seattle and then SoCal for book business. Which puts me in the mood for something random. � When I was young, my mother used to take us to [...]
Nothing is gained by over-definition.
When I was a home schooled student, thirty years ago, no one really argued about what it “meant” to be a home educator: You either were, or you weren’t. This is no longer the [...]
Is grovelling still necessary?
Ten years ago, I gave this lecture after Princeton University Press released��The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America.�� For several years afterwards, I got [...]
The questions need to be asked, even if we don’t yet have the answers…
This week, the Wall Street Journal�published a review-essay of�Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education�and a book I haven’t read yet, Bryan Caplan’s�The [...]
Publication day!
Today’s publication day for�Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education! So I’ll just be deworming sheep and then heading to the office. When your first book [...]