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Free Market Fairness by John Tomasi
To write about bleeding-heart libertarianism is no easy task. Self-professed bleeding-heart libertarians, who include well-known political philosophers, now run their own website, and the movement has aroused among libertarians considerable… Read more
The Roots of Obama’s Rage
We are today living out the script for America and the world that was dreamt up not by Obama but by Obama’s father. How do I know this? Because Obama… Read more
Nutrition expert blasts vegan book for kids
A new kid’s book featuring bloody steaks next to cute cows that tells children to be vegans has left some food specialists with a bone to pick with the author…. Read more
The Chocofication of Learning
Welcome to the next stop on the blog tour for Karl Kapp’s new book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction! Hop off that blog bus and shake the dust off…. Read more
Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Classroom
Kenneth Bernstein – That’s the title of this book by Deborah Meier, Brenda Engel, and Beth Taylor, published by Teachers College Press. The rest of this post is the review… Read more
An Interview with Robert Etheredge: Why Study American History?
Michael F. Shaughnessy – 1) First of all, tell us a bit about your background and why you wrote this book. My father was a Marine in World War II… Read more
An Interview with Professor Russell Eisenman: Second Edition – Better than the First?
Michael F. Shaughnessy – Professor Eisenman, I have just received the second edition of Creativity, Mental Illness and Crime. What changes have been made since the first edition? I added… Read more
Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground
There are few names more honored in education than that of Deborah Meier, who won a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award for her work in founding and running Central Park East… Read more
A shocking investigation revealing why greedy oil companies are lying to the American people in the new book “The Great Oil Conspiracy”
by Dr. Jerome R. Cors – At the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence agents confiscated thousands of Nazi documents on what was known as the “Fischer-Tropsch Process”—a series… Read more
