Objectivity, Advocacy, Academic Legitimacy, and the Fight Over Scholarly Standards

What the Challenge of AI Reveals About Education

How Individualism Broke the Chain Between Past and Future—and What We Still Pass On

How a Writer Who Knew Far Less Than Us Can Show Us Ways of Thinking We Are in Danger of Losing

My childhood dream – or one of them, anyway, as I had a lot of dreams as a kid – was to be a comic book artist.

On Appearance Emotionalism

Part 2 of an interview with Kirsten Davis

How the Great Theories of the Twentieth Century Became Institutional Common Sense, and What Comes After

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

Working memory refers to the system or systems that are assumed to be necessary in order to keep things in mind while performing complex tasks such as reasoning, comprehension and learning. Over the l...

I wrote this article 22 years ago, but in the wake of a friend's death I've felt moved to salvage it and put it out there again as it could still be helpful

Schmigadoon!, the American Musical’s Golden Age, and the Decline of Democratic Ambition in American Art

YouTube video by Ian Pilon

Anthony Burgess visits Washington D.C.

How America Lost Faith in the Democratic, Egalitarian, and Liberal-Republican Ideals of 1776

Mark Lowther gives his ultimate recommendation for Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony.

YouTube video by The New Yorker

The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think

YouTube video by Seattle Sports

Why an exam paper is not all that different to a practical task

Black Cultural Expression and the Search for the Sacred in American Life

Ancient Athens, Student Theater, and the Uses of Art in Turbulent Times

Not Just What Operas to See and Books to Read, but Chocolates Worth Buying and Cheeses to Know

Nikolaus Bönke, Talha Sajjad, Thamar Voss

Come offline, and listen slowly with me

YouTube video by KBS교향악단

Paul Revere’s Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is the most famous poem about the American Revolution, but it’s mostly myth.

You do not start young children with fake parts.

And Why This Matters

Teaching paradoxes can't be solved—only navigated. Smith, Lewis, and Kennedy show why both/and thinking matters most.

But grade probabilities are better!

A large international study links cultural change to anxiety in young people. But the results are nuanced. Here is what the research shows.

One plan. Five skills. Students research something real from day one.

Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

Why behaviorism still distorts literacy instruction, and why Structured Word Inquiry offers a different path

Correct answers are a lagging indicator of learning, not the mechanism.

Uncertainty in schools is like trying to teach Macbeth while the fire alarm’s going off: everyone’s in the room, but the vibe is 90% panic, 10% “Will this be on the exam?”, and you’re pretty sure the ...

And that's the correct educational order

Why oral vocabulary predicts reading ability.

Most professional development still rests on a fairly simple model of learning: Explain something clearly enough, model it, add a little practice and understanding will follow.

One of the more damaging myths in teaching is the idea that explanation is somehow natural.