August 26, 2011

Ed Reform, The Autumn of the Patriarch's, and more: The Week's Links

Over at Reuters, Steven Brill gets into some of the weeds of the ed-reform debates.  Check your facts, everyone!

God knows what the future holds for Libya.  But here's Christopher Hitchens on the Qaddafi endgame, including a little backhanded compliment to the Administration for its "leading-from-behind" strategy.  And an interesting piece in The New Republic on the Colonel's oil-money propping-up of wretched insurgents the world over.  Spread the filth.

And a tantalizing sample of Lewis Hines photos here.  It's can sometimes seem easy to dismiss the idea that Obama often channels from MLK, of a moral universe gradually "bending" toward justice.  But in looking back at all the tiny, laboring, urchin-like children, you've got to appreciate how far we've come in that regard.

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