Comments on: National Review Hits It Out of the Park on Homeschooling

By: Maximilian

Maximilian — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:50:02 +0000

Greg, I am pleased to read that old and very reasonable post of yours.

By: Greg Forster

Greg Forster — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:04:25 +0000

The article is behind a subscriber wall. Provided you already subscribe to First Things, why not consider adding NR?

By: Judy K. Warner

Judy K. Warner — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:46:50 +0000

Could you provide a link to the article instead of to everything else?

By: Michael PS

Michael PS — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:35:41 +0000

Jules Ferry, one of the founders of public education in Europe was more candid than most politicians, when he said its purpose was “to cast the nation’s youth in the same mould and to stamp them, like the coinage, with the image of the republic.”

One might imagine that he was a left-wing ideologue, but not a bit of it; a leading figure in the Party of Order, he was the minister of Thiers, during “bloody week” (the suppression of the Paris Commune) and the theoretician of colonisation in Algeria

By: Greg Forster

Greg Forster — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:08:06 +0000

Actually, I agree with him on both of those points. I wrote about that here. A few of the points where I think Williamson goes wrong are 1) he argues that it doesn't really matter very much whether a morally sound view of marriage is recognized in law; and 2) he argues the battle for marriage is unwinnable (I disagree here and in a still-ongoing debate I'm participating in on this blog). Fair enough?

By: Maximilian

Maximilian — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:04:21 +0000

He opposes same-sex marriage. Is that the misguided part, or the part where he thinks that someone should be allowed to be a Romney adviser, despite being in a same-sex relationship?