Public comment articles
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DISRESPECT: Public Schools Got It
Some of us may remember the Helen Lovejoy character in The Simpsons, who would appear any time some catastrophe befell the town and plaintively wail, “Won’t someone please think of the children?!” The joke here, of course, is that as long as you do something in the name of helping children, it must be right, and you
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Why is Pentecost not a public holiday in Sweden?
Danes and Norwegians will get to enjoy three days off this weekend because of Pentecost and Whit Monday. But not Swedes. Why?
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The public W.H. Auden
Something went out of public life the day that W.H. Auden died in 1973 at age 66. Oh, there were still people writing poetry, still journals publishing it, still a section labeled “Poetry” in high school textbooks, still a cultural lip service paid to the old literary endeavor. But after the death of Auden, nothing […]