Opinion
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School Is for Learning to Read
The most important thing schools can do is teach children how to read. If you can read, you can learn…
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School Is for Everyone
For the majority of human history, most people didn’t go to school. Formal education was a privilege for the Alexander…
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School Is for Merit
In 1982, as a 5-foot-0 teen at Morgantown High School in the foothills of West Virginia’s Appalachians, I stepped forward…
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School Is for Making Citizens
Why do we have public schools? To make young people into educated, productive adults, of course. But public schools are…
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Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe
In the months leading up to its premiere this Friday, Amazon Prime’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of…
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‘Defund the Police’ Is Dead. Now What?
Some said it was dumb. Some thought it was politically disastrous. Some thought it was being unfairly demonized and mischaracterized.…
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Could the Courts Block Biden’s Student Loan Relief Plan?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. Last week,…
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Gov. Jay Inslee Is Taking a Well-Earned Climate Victory Lap
The landmark Inflation Reduction Act isn’t even a month old, and though internecine fights continue about its estimated value and…
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Is Harry Styles Co-opting a Queer Identity?
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With ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘The Rings of Power,’ We’ve Entered the Age of Blockbuster TV
The past 25 years of American television, like the history of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, can be usefully divided into several…