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What a French Middle School Reform Tells Us About How to Improve our University Admissions System
Several decades ago, French educators noted an unusual development in middle schools (collèges), mostly in well-to-do neighborhoods: record numbers of…
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My Search for the Ideal Reading Tablet
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Summer Reading
Here are five books by friends and colleagues that I am really looking forward to reading in full this summer. While I can’t give them full endorsements…
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Are We Still in the Forever War?
The term “forever war” first appeared as the title of a 1974 science-fiction novel. Its author was Joe Haldeman, a Vietnam veteran who drew on his own…
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Liberty, Equality, Slavery
Professor Lauren Clay of Vanderbilt has written a fascinating article for the March, 2023 American Historical Review entitled “Liberty, Equality…
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“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
I was going to write a column this week about the ongoing events in France. But then the editors of the British web magazine UnHerd asked me to opine on…
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Normandy, 1944
In a few months, it will be the seventy-ninth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. The youngest surviving Allied veterans who fought in them…
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How (and How Not) to Cover the "History Wars"
The “History Wars” rarely seem to be out of the news these days. In The New Yorker, Emma Green has a long article that returns, yet again, to the…
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My writings, mostly but not entirely about French history

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