Commentary Nearly a century ago, Lawrence Lowell, the retiring president of Harvard University, described his university’s education school as “a kitten that ought to be drowned.” While Lowell’s words were offensive, his point was clear. Education schools have a poor reputation. This was true in the early-20th century and it remains true today. In 2006,…
Michael Zwaagstra: Education Schools Do a Poor Job of Training Teachers
‘The Irish in Us’ From 1935: Three Irish Brothers
Commentary St. Patrick’s Day is a popular holiday for celebrating all things Irish, whether your ancestors come from the Emerald Isle or not. You can get in the festive spirit on March 17 by wearing green clothing, eating corned beef and cabbage, and decorating everything with shamrocks. My favorite way of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day…
US-China Economic Gap Widens; China Misses Turning Point in Prosperity
News Analysis China’s economy is growing stagnant, with the GDP growth prediction for 2023 officially assessed as the lowest in 30 years, indicating a total economic decline after the COVID-19 outbreak. Such a slump means a widening gap with the United States and a reversal of previous projections by economists that the Chinese economy would…
Weak Debate Around Education Does Little to Help Our Children
March 17, 2023
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Commentary Children are society’s most precious commodity or asset. It is their well-being and the virtues instilled in them as they grow up which will determine our society’s future. We all need to be fully invested in our children’s future from a family perspective right through to our nation at large. Part of being fully…
Is There Reason to Fear AI?
Commentary ChatGPT and other aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) have created a lot of fear. Many dread, and have done so for years, that AI will steal millions of jobs and, worse, gain some sentience and take over, as the computer HAL did in the 1970’s film, “2001 Space Odyssey.” Neither the takeover nor mass…
A Sudden and Ominous Nuclear Gap
Commentary With the original Cold War long faded in the rear-view mirror, there are terms of art that have been forgotten. Two key terms drove the dialogue on the American–Soviet nuclear standoff of the Cold War: “bomber gap” and “missile gap.” They were powerful terms that the average American citizen or average politician could understand….
Bond Traders Blind-Sided in China
March 17, 2023
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Commentary China’s regulators are putting its $21 trillion bond market at risk. The ham-fisted regime is not only centralizing financial power and reshuffling financial regulatory personnel but is also banning the best brokers and data aggregators from selling real-time price data. Screens where China’s bond prices appeared went blank on Wednesday. Managers at the China…
Hollywood’s Old Code Is Better Than the New Code
Commentary On the recommendation of Tiffany Brannan, I watched “No Highway in the Sky” (1951) with Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. It’s an absolutely thrilling movie with tremendous scenes of what it was like to fly commercial in 1951 in all its luxury. It’s comfort, service, and spaciousness all around. Those scenes alone are remarkable…
Canada’s Defence Team Has Met the Enemy and He Is Us!
Commentary Walt Kelly’s “Pogo” was a syndicated cartoon that appeared in hundreds of North American newspapers from 1948 to 1975. The comic strip chronicled the adventures of a clever opossum who lived among other talking animals in the Southern Okefenokee Swamp. Pogo was popular among children and adults with plenty of pithy political satire aimed…
Biden Orders Up More Socialist Government
Commentary “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” said President Ronald Reagan during his inaugural address. Biden’s executive orders on equity will not make things more equal. On the contrary, they create more socialism and government control. On Feb. 16, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Further Advancing Racial…
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