I believe that not only cursive writing, but cursive writing with a pencil on scratchy low-quality paper helped kids learn to read and spell. That muscle effort plus the slow painstaking creation of each letter while saying the sound of the letter in your head or outloud—and then blending it into the next connected letter—how could this not be helpful?
I’ve been blown away by the quiet messages I’ve received — especially from people in the theater world — saying “Thank you for saying what I can’t.”
That’s exactly why I wrote Think Again: What I Learned in My Theater Board’s Gender Debate.
It’s not just about pronouns or policy — it’s about how to speak up persuasively when the stakes are…
Yet another example of the kind of coverage that is so distractingly wrong that it makes it hard to focus on the supposed bigger issue. I continue to be mystified by editors who feel they need to do stuff like this
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“Dear Members of the Pulitzer Prize board,
My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.
On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderl…
This made me emotional and simultaneously angry that even when we are slaughtered we have to share our story in detail to get sympathy, it’s so backwards
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Thank you to all the new followers and subscribers! I’ve received so many emails and notes and donations, and I am working through each one, but it may take a few days.
Many people have reached out interested in starting a literacy program in their area. If you are one of these people, I’m putting together a training especially for you.
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If you go into a bar and pay for a sign that says “fuck the Jews” and proudly show it everywhere and post it on your social media - you can expect that all of normal and polite society says fuck you back and wants nothing to do with you.
This isn’t cancel culture - this is you’re a vile pig.
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"I always like to say, have a conversation and figure out what's reasonable. When we operate in extremes we lose our objectivity. I think that's what's happened with the DEI movement and the anti-racism movement. I'll see a lot of advocacy of things that just are not realistic in implementation. It's very idealistic. I want to talk about…
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RFK Jr is preparing to ban Pharmaceutical Ads on TV..
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