Diane Ravitch’s important new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, will surely stir controversy, exactly as she intends. . . .
While Jerry Brown drew the lion’s share of attention yesterday when he formally threw his hat in the ring (click here to see said announcement), California’s Democratic Senate primary also grew by one. . . .
What is most like Alice in Wonderland is discussing medical care reform in the abstract, as if there are not already government-run medical care systems in this country and elsewhere. . . .
Forgive Vice President Joe Biden the audacity of claiming last month on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Iraq is destined to be "one of the great achievements of this administration." . . .
An oft-used cliché in California political circles is “the conflicted voter” — that is, the “prototypical” Californian who wants lower taxes, more government services, tougher crime laws, and a kinder-gentler society. . . .
The resilience of emerging market economies severely hit by the panic of 2008 is amazing, especially in comparison with the long emerging market crisis period of a decade ago. . . .
In the midst of the current orgy of capitalism-bashing, unleashed by those who earnestly believe that they should be directing the buying and selling activities of the public, there is once again a good deal of talk about how we must all serve the public interest and forget about our own selfish goals. . . .
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) ranks at or near the top of lists of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, thanks especially to his magnum opus, Being and Time, published in Germany in 1927. . . .
Six and a half hours, two meals, a tub of ice cream, a gallon of coffee and 20 sheets of scribbled notes after the televised “bipartisan health-care summit” began, I still ask myself the question that popped into my head within minutes of the summit’s start: What on earth was President Obama thinking when he decided to convene this weird little powwow? . . .
The left has a great pretense to intellectual heft, and you don't have to go any further to find it than Frank Rich, a New York Times columnist who was recently pontificating on the possibly disastrous and significant meaning to the American republic of a man crashing his plane into a Texas building housing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers. . . .
Once again the Democrat majority that controls the Alabama State Legislature did what they so often do -- fail the parents and children of Alabama. . . .
State Attorney General Jerry Brown announced this morning that he is formally entering the California governor's race, setting up what experts say is a race full of contrasts that could end up a nail-biter. . . .
Diane Ravitch, the education historian who built her intellectual reputation battling progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration’s Education Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow-motion about-face on almost every stand she once took on American schooling. . . .
Promising to use his knowledge and skills to end "partisan bickering" in Sacramento and fix "this state I love," Attorney General Jerry Brown formally announced his candidacy for governor of California this week. . . .
Even as the Pentagon, Congress, and the Obama administration spar with one another in a debate over gays serving openly in combat, the DoD has shifted the debate trying to focus on lifting the ban on women in combat. . . .
