Assistant Village Idiot

Erica Komisar, therapist and parenting expert, explains in interview what is wrong in both specifics and general approach in the education o...

I sampled half a dozen versions tonight, and still like hers best.   

 Asian immigration and the signalling model of education , at Aporia.  It's almost a year old now - I don't know how I missed it. ...

I thought I remembered it was James who had heard the phrase "brilliant but unreliable colleague" to describe AI, but I couldn...

The acronym CANOE is an etymological joke, referring to the C ommittee to A ttribute a N autical O rigin to E verything. Many English words ...

Playwrights, screenwriters, journalists, and novelists have long sold the idea that strict evangelical homes have produced a lot of atheists...

An ABBA song I have not yet posted. I'm not that fond of it, but I'm thinking I have to eventually expose you to the entire collecti...

Consistently libertarian Eugene Volokh, who Glenn Reynolds used to suggest should be a Supreme Court nominee, weighs in on the right to bear...

 Just about done with that year, as you can see. 2014 was the year I blogged least, and the following three weren't much denser.  I don...

One of my book groups is reading Walker Percy's  Love in the Ruins .  I had not known there was a subtitle (Adventures of a Bad Catholic...

 Predicting Personality from Book Preferences with User-Generated Content Labels.   (The graphic expands for much greater clarity)      The ...

It is about 18 months old now, and we have been going over this material for all 20 years of this blog, but I think it is worth pointing out...

I spend increasing time dopamine-scrolling through substack summaries, linksites, and blog commentary sites - like you SOB's - looking f...

Now that there is electronic, portable, and personal music available, I don't know how much servicemen have shared songs anymore.  Schoo...

 Inside the Funhouse Mirror Factory,  a research review in Current Opinion in Psychology.  So maybe we shouldn't believe our eyes. We ha...

The intellectual underpinning of critical theory is much discussed by its adherents and not fully known by its opponents. The social and emo...