Category: Wisdom
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay about her daughter’s education is heartbreaking because it poses a question almost every parent understands: Did I make the right choice for my child? Hannah-Jones made the choice more publicly and politically than most. A decade ago, she and her husband sent their daughter, Najya, to a predominantly Black, high-poverty public school…
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There has been a lot written about screen time, so I should probably begin with a confession: I am averaging about eight hours a day this week, and I am not particularly proud of it. We are constantly told to put our phones down, stop scrolling, step away from social media, and spend more time…
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There is a line usually attributed to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels: “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” There is no reliable evidence that Goebbels actually said those exact words. But watching American politics right now, it is difficult not to think about the political strategy captured by the line. For decades,…
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Is the provost at UT-Austin a right wing political operative? The University of Texas at Austin is eliminating majors in African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Race, Indigeneity, and Migration. These are not abstract academic labels. They represent the histories, intellectual traditions, and lived experiences of…
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Texas erased a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit, Ohio State lost, and somehow the internet decided that the real scandal was the brown students celebrating in the stadium. As a former UT Austin professor for eight years, where I first earned tenure, and a Michigan alumnus who is always happy to see Ohio State lose, I had…
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