We don’t have enough of it. At least, not the right kind, that actually, you know, defends rights.
More Of That Smart Diplomacy
Obama’s remark about Sarkozy’s looks offends the French. Of course, the French are easily offended. And given to offense themselves.
Who Lost Iraq?
Krauthammer, on the wasted opportunity.
The Depression, World War II And Keynes
Four myths (including the one that the war ended the Depression). Also, why Obama and the Democrats are so obsessed with the income inequality myth.
Headline Du Jour
This is pretty funny.
Freedom
Are we too sissy for it any more?
A Shocking Development
An OWS protester discovers that his expensive degree in puppetry doesn’t really pay off.
Teaching Students How To Write
Some thoughts. I found this comment interesting, and it wouldn’t surprise me:
You guys have not read many manuscripts from academic writers, have you? As a long-time academic editor, I read hundreds–hundreds that were submitted for publication, no less.
Academics do not write well at all–most quite poorly. The three I knew who were truly gifted writers… to have lunch with them was to begin to study the wall for crack patterns, they were so introverted. Department chairs were absolutely incoherent, but there was substance there–they were simply quite used to having secretaries and copy editors do the hard work of making it readable for them. The legions of humanities and social science assistant and associate profs… one wanders across the tundra of their boggy prose delighted for even the tiniest patch of semi-solid jargon-free verbiage.
In my experience, good workman-like writing at any education level is quite rare.
I’ve often suspected that this is true of many “journalists” as well, and was one of the reasons that there was so much initial resistance to blogging — a lot of them really do need “layers of fact checkers and editors” to create their “product.”
That Was Then
So what are they, racists?
The Higher Education Bubble
When will it pop?
He makes a point that doesn’t get made enough — that what kind of degree you get matters, but a lot of these children (and particularly the ones who are shifting back and forth between occupying Wall Street and occupying their parents’ basements) don’t get that. Nor does the student loan program.
[Update a while later]