Jamestown Revival’s new album “The Education of a Wandering Man” just came out, and I’ve spent the day playing it as my soundtrack. The cover art itself makes it worth having in your life — two men in cowboy hats on the wings of a biplane, with an awesome blue/green/western color scheme. Aesthetics don’t get …
I read a powerful essay today by John Taylor Gatto (linked here). I’d highly recommend reading it — it’s a short and deep summary of the history of our public school system, the detriments of the system, and an argument that we don’t need the system at all. I wrote the following notes in response. …
Read more “The School vs. The Soul: Notes on an Essay by John Taylor Gatto”
From repeated experience I can confidently state that I doubt if anyone can devise a subject of even the slightest significance but that someone previously had written a substantial book upon it. The accumulation of usable knowledge in this world is staggering, and with the new computerized indexes, even the most fugitive document can be …