Timothy Noah Quotes
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.