In the course of reporting on some interesting research on the benefits of kindergarten, David Leonhardt of the New York Times goes off on a tangent : Barely a week seems to go by without a newspaper or television station running a report suggesting that education is overrated . These stories quote liberal groups, like the Economic Policy Institute , that argue that an education can’t protect workers in today’s global economy. Or they quote conservatives, like Charles Murray and Ramesh Ponnuru, who suggest that people who haven’t graduated from college aren’t smart enough to do so. But the anti-education case usually relies on a combination of anecdotes and selective facts. In truth…
CNN refreshingly devoted an entire segment on Wednesday’s American Morning to highlighting pornography’s destructive impact on society, especially Internet porn. Guest Gail Dines detailed the harmful impact of pornography on men’s sexuality, and anchor John Roberts even cited a study that found that 56% of divorces ” involve one party … who has an obsessive interest in pornographic websites .” Roberts brought on Dines, a professor at Wheelock College in Boston and author of “Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality,” at the end of the 7 am Eastern hour. After citing the gargantuan number of pornographic websites on the Internet, the anchor first asked, “You say in your book and in studies …
In the Fall of 2010, for the first time ever, First Things will release its own college rankings and guide. As many of you will know from experience, picking the right college is a difficult and trying process, especially for parents and students concerned not only with academic quality but with spiritual and religious formation. Among the many college guides and rankings, none offers students and parents adequate insight into how schools stack up in relation to matters of faith, religious practice, religious and political bias in the classroom, support for religious groups, and the relations of faith to the actual currents in …
In the Fall of 2010, for the first time ever, First Things will release its own college rankings and guide. As many of you will know from experience, picking the right college is a difficult and trying process, especially for parents and students concerned not only with academic quality but with spiritual and religious formation. Among the many college guides and…
Managing Editor’s Note: What follows is an open letter from NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell to Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli about the controversial [now defunct] e-mail listserv JournoList , founded and operated by the Post’s Ezra Klein. The JournoList scandal is getting worse every day and The Washington Post is at the center of it. Blogger Ezra Klein ran the operation and at least…
I am pleased to announce that my political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism , will be published on October 19 by the Threshold imprint of Simon & Schuster.? Here is the Amazon page.? Here is the cover: Given my various adventures during the last presidential campaign, it seemed best to remain …
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Barack Obama will make history this week when he becomes the first sitting president to appear on ABC’s daytime ladies talk show “The View.” I guess when you’re likely the most liberal Commander in Chief the nation has ever seen with poll numbers plummeting faster than a coin tossed off the Empire State Building there isn’t a better place to have your ego massaged than on a couch surrounded by gushing females tossing softballs at you as the cameras roll. …
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Barack Obama will make history this week when he becomes the first sitting president to appear on ABC’s daytime ladies talk show “The View.” I guess when you’re likely the most liberal Commander in Chief the nation has ever seen with poll numbers plummeting faster than a coin tossed off the Empire State Building there isn’t a better place to have your ego massaged than on a couch surrounded by gushing females tossing softballs at you as the cameras roll. Most interestingly, the announcement published at ABCNews.com referred to the President’s sagging approval ratings giving one the impression that even the show’s producers know why he’s coming to chat…
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Barack Obama will make history this week when he becomes the first sitting president to appear on ABC’s daytime ladies talk show “The View.” I guess when you’re likely the most liberal Commander in Chief the nation has ever seen with poll numbers plummeting faster than a coin tossed off the Empire State Building there isn’t a better place to have your ego massaged than on a couch surrounded by…
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Barack Obama will make history this week when he becomes the first sitting president to appear on ABC’s daytime ladies talk show “The View.” I guess when you’re likely the most liberal Commander in Chief the nation has ever seen with poll numbers plummeting faster than a coin tossed off the Empire State Building there isn’t a better place to have your ego massaged than on a couch surrounded by gushing females tossing softballs at you as the cameras roll. Most interestingly, the announcement published at ABCNews.com referred to the President’s sagging …
