Headlines such as “Dallas-Fort Worth out of ICU beds for children as surge in COVID-19 cases continues” have left many with the impression that in addition to being more contagious, the Delta variant is hitting kids harder than previous versions of the virus. It’s especially puzzling to those of us who’ve followed the science closely. […]
Coronavirus contemplations II
Some further contemplations of mine regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How has the US performed during the pandemic? When I first shared a series of contemplations in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, I noted David Harsanyi’s prediction that the United States would be the best place to ride it out. This was […]
Remembering Joyce
Jennifer knew her as Mom, Penelope and Harrison knew her as Granny, while I and many others knew her as Joyce. She left us in June having lived with Alzheimer’s for many years. We’ve been thinking of her a lot. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother and more. Over the past 15 years or so […]
Virtual schooling led to dramatic learning loss
New data from Texas shows that regardless of economic status or race, enormous numbers of students who learned virtually for the majority of the past school year experienced a dramatic learning loss. This learning loss was most pronounced for Black and Hispanic students. This outcome is tragic given that schools that reopened for in-person instruction […]
Unleashing New Zealand’s Potential and Suppressing Washington State’s—Lessons for Texas
<This speech was delivered to the Dallas Chapter of the Bastiat Society on June 17, 2021> In 1847, French economist Frédéric Bastiat, this society’s namesake, published a facetious petition to the king now known as “The Right Hand and the Left”. In it he laid bare the fallacy of some of his contemporaries that if […]
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