John Dewey

An Angry Pataki, His Race Askew, Rides Teachers

Not long after his humiliating defeat on the Independence Party line-the first-ever defeat of his po  read more »

America's Homegrown Idea: Pragmatism and Its Progenitors

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America , by Louis Menand.  read more »

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the School Board

 Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education , by Alan Ryan. Hill and Wang, 199 pages, $22.  read more »