In what seems like an eternity ago, I attended a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in San Diego. I loved it and wrote about it. Rabbi Yonah and his lovely wife Rachel also attended and planned to post about it. However, a little problem by the name of Charles Gadda got in the way. Well, it [...]...

by Eric Kohn The pathetic episodes of Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Rep. Charles Rangel, Nancy Killefer and their respective tax cheating should have everyone furious. What's remarkable here is not only that all of these instances have occurred recently and......

In the current issue of District Administrator, Alfie Kohn writes that 21st century skills just aren’t good enough any more. He warns that our adversaries (ie. “people in other countries”) are on to us and we must immediately move on to… 22nd century education. What does that...

Dan Willingham has written a must-read piece about third-rate huckster Alfie Kohn. But we’ll get to that later. The gall, the gall! says Andy Rotherham. In “Breaking News: Psychologist Dan Willingham has a pain fetish,” Rotherham writes: Seriously.  Why else would he take this on...

A completare la presentazione della nuova Mini Cabrio al recente Salone di Detroit, la casa britannica porterà a Ginevra la versione più cattiva della gamma, la Cooper S John Cooper Works. Si tratterà chiaramente di una variante strettamente imparentata con l’omologa versione berlina, dal p...

by Eric Kohn This is all a soon-to-be moot point as it's only really a matter of days until the State Senate votes to remove him from office, but either way, the authors of Obama/Democrat "economic stimulus bill" thought it......

"And the way to make government accountable is make it transparent so that the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they're being made and whether their interests are being well-served."...

by Eric Kohn While even in the midst of celebrating the inauguration of their personal political Messiah, some of the Left couldn't resist acting like petulant school children: The crowd packed on the west side of the Capitol grounds serenaded......

Top officials of the Federal Reserve yesterday offered the most detailed proposals yet for overhauling the rescue of the financial system, urging Congress to release the next batch of bailout money and arguing that a stimulus program alone is not enough to keep the economy from plunging further into...

For the Monday morning education page of the Post, editors asked some experts for advice they would offer to the new Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, whose confirmation hearing is tomorrow. My favorites come from “The Author”, Alfie Kohn: Theory, research, and practice all suggest th...