Mark Santow
The Passing of Robert L. Carter, and School Desegregation in the Metropolitan North
I was saddened to hear of the death of Judge Robert L. Carter yesterday, at the age of 94. The passing of this great generation of civil rights reformers (Fred Shuttlesworth and Derrick Bell are gone too) was of course inevitable — Dr. King would be in his 80s, if he were still with us. But studying [...]
Finland Finland Finland, the country where I quite want to teach
As it turns out, Monty Python was right: Finland isn’t just a great place for snack lunch in the hall… It really does have it all: social democracy, smoked fish, and a public school system that American reformers are beginning to notice. Too bad they are noticing the wrong thing. As many of you know, Finland is [...]
Penny-wise, (Rand) Paul foolish — or, why government often matters
It appears, at times, that American conservatives seem to even deny the possibility that government spending or regulation might actually save money — either save the government money (a secondary consideration) or save the country money (presumably, the primary goal). As I noted yesterday, there is now ample empirical evidence that environmental regulation (along with Medicaid) has decreased [...]
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