The dumbing down of America, cont.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the American education system is in crisis. Too many young people don't know things that used to be considered basic information you learned if you got through high school.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the American education system is in crisis. Too many young people don't know things that used to be considered basic information you learned if you got through high school.
The Charter School Industry spends millions trying to influence LAUSD School Board elections but fails to win in areas saturated with its schools.
In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory.
Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guanta'namo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones[...]
Review if The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer. Compared to the novel by Martin Amis.