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I’ve been thinking off and on all day about what to say about David Brooks’ provocative column today, in which he compares the Tea Party Right of today with the New Left of the 1960s. Here’s an excerpt: But the core commonality is this: Members of both movements believe in what you might call mass…

We are accustomed to narratives praising good teachers and the difference they’ve made in the lives of their students. But I don’t think I’ve ever read one about what a bad teacher has wrought in a student’s life — until Emily Oren’s wrenching blog memoir of the teacher who drove her out of architecture school.…

Well, how about this: our old friend Erin Manning is organizing a campaign to pray the rosary for my cancer-stricken sister Ruthie Leming during Lent. (More about Ruthie’s situation and the amazing way she’s handling it at this link.) So far, she’s got five good people who have agreed to do so. I’m so touched…

Samuel Arbesman writes: When people think of knowledge, they generally think of two sorts of facts: facts that don’t change, like the height of Mount Everest or the capital of the United States, and facts that fluctuate constantly, like the temperature or the stock market close. But in between there is a third kind: facts…
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