About Liam Julian
Articles By Liam Julian
Imagine a 17-year-old who does not want to attend college (or at least not right away); who finds parsing Macbeth maddeningly immaterial; who yearns to learn a practical skill and put it to use; who feels his personal strengths are being ignored and wasted. Too often, such a pupil has no other options. He has no educational choice.
Meet the man behind Eduwonk. (From the print edition.)
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Norfolk Attempts to Silence Eminent Domain Protest 21 May 2012, 7:00 pm
Government officials in Norfolk, Va., are not only taking a local business, they are telling the owners to be quiet about it. Central Radio Company has been in Norfolk for nearly 80 years. Founded in 1934, Central Radio serviced radio equipment for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Today, it employs more than 100 people [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Robert Frommer and Erica Smith
DC Dog Owners on a Tight Leash 17 May 2012, 9:05 pm
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform… -Alexis de Tocqueville, from “Democracy in America.” Getting a [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Amanda Carey