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Noah I. Dauber
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Learning to Read
Over the past few months, I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about reading and writing. I have
A Failing Grade
Yesterday's Financial Times headline said it all: "US students flunk test." Confirming what we already knew, but were afraid to
Boredom, Ambition at All-Time High
A recent poll, commissioned by the American Council on Education and conducted by researchers at UCLA, claims that our classmates,
Can Our Doubt Save Us?
I read this week's lead article in The New York Times Magazine with some skepticism and a pinch of admiration.
Children Or Premature Adults?
M onday night's ARCO Forum of Public Affairs on "Sex, Commercialism and the Disappearance of Childhood" had very little to
Beyond Personalities in Foreign Policy
U nited States foreign policy these days seems to have as much to do with personality as ideas. On Friday,
A New American Individualism
T he image of American individualism is changing from the lone cowboy on the range to the lone parent at
Moral Politics and the Polls
W atching the situation of morals in politics these days is kind of like viewing a silent slapstick film. Just
Envisioning an Education
R eaders beware! Do not be confused by Professor Paul Peterson's latest piece in this month's Commentary magazine on school
Looking for a Victim in the North Korean Famine
V ictim politics is always a confusing game. It is hard to separate out our feelings: Are we to be
Is Workfare Working?
Valuing labor is still a thorny social problem, as is evident in the recent workfare controversy. Intuitively we believe that
Questioning an Answer
"We must search for answers," counseled the Reverend Edward Casey at the eulogy of 22-year-old Jeremy Giordano, one of the
Gingrich Goes After the Arts
N ewt Gingrich has reared his head once more. The indebted Speaker of the House tore into federal funding of
Pinsky's Worth the Money
We have a new Poet Laureate, and we should all be proud. Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno and poetry
The Politics Of Silence
A small battle over the nature of the public library is raging in the imaginary cyber-war that grips our country.
