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Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald
Atheists behaving churlishly
Of the various Christmas sightseeing destinations offered a child in 1960s Los Angeles, the Santa Monica crèches—a series of small stage sets erected on the bluffs above the Pacific Coast Highway–were particularly alluring. The life-sized mannequins that populated the chicken-wire … Continue reading
Are students really that dumb or are they just pretending?
I fail to grasp the deep personal insult allegedly sent by the Berkeley bake sale, unlike some commenters on this site. If you are offended by the idea of someone being offered a benefit based on his race, you should … Continue reading
Magical Thinking Watch: The Education-Industrial Complex Will Make Us Learned
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan provides an almost parodistic version of the “technology will solve our education problems” meme today that is at once hilarious, depressing, and terrifying—the latter, because it heralds the arrival of another hugely expensive and … Continue reading
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Prayer doesn’t bring rain
If any believers want to hazard a guess as to why God decided to ignore Texans’ official three-day prayer session for rain, it would be illuminating. Perhaps prayers are sent without any serious expectation that they will be answered (and … Continue reading
Death by Commission
Amy Zegart, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, warns in the Los Angeles Times today that the U.S. sure as heck better not ratchet down its massive anti-terrorism efforts and its still-lingering fear rhetoric: The fight is nowhere close … Continue reading
Magical Thinking Watch: Whiteboards in every classroom, a literate student in every home
Education technology does not seem to be solving our education woes. So concludes this impressively-reported New York Times story on an Arizona school district that has spent $33 million since 2006 on the ed. establishment’s usual panaceas of “whiteboards,” laptops, and … Continue reading
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No roads for me but a new hospital for thee?
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s on-again, off-again suggestion that federal disaster relief for Hurrican Irene victims be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget is a courageous precedent to set against further deficit spending. And yet I wonder how … Continue reading
Columbia Prez. Lee Bollinger is accused of not valuing “diversity”
Occasionally, the racial victimology and extortion complex provides some entertaining and pleasant justice. The accusation that Columbia University President Lee Bollinger is insufficiently committed to diversity, and, by implication, is racist, is one of those moments. The departure of two … Continue reading
Bachmann interprets Hurricane Irene and Perry prays for rain
Michelle Bachman recently suggested that the summer’s catastrophic weather reflects God’s displeasure with the course of American politics: “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians . . . We’ve had an … Continue reading
A New York Times reporter tips his hand
In the course of a column blasting media entrepreneur Steven Brill’s new book on the school reform movement, New York Times reporter Michael Winerip inadvertently sets out his economic assumptions. A revelation of an entire world view does not get … Continue reading