self-deprecating hyperachievers make it all so much worse| Freddie deBoer
a Serenity Prayer for owners of fake football teams| Freddie deBoer
If you are moved by this essay, please consider preordering my new novel.| Freddie deBoer
from brat summer to Barbiecore, it's an age of engineered crazes| Freddie deBoer
there's a kind of violence in posthumously drafting a man famously resistant to joining anything into your political movement| Freddie deBoer
and yet concerns about them are just handwaved away| Freddie deBoer
terms of service liberalism failed, and the media glory days aren't coming back| Freddie deBoer
extremely rare things are extremely rare for a reason| freddiedeboer.substack.com
they're shitting into each other's mouths, is what I'm saying| freddiedeboer.substack.com
catching flies, honey, vinegar, etc| freddiedeboer.substack.com
the anti-party strikes again| Freddie deBoer
its flaws demand retraction| Freddie deBoer
what is the purpose of an open mind that's never forced to come into contact with ideas it might not like?| Freddie deBoer
I’m in Persuasion talking about the irrationality of stranger danger fears, and I was in The Times of London this past week writing about Zohran Mamdani. Please check them both out.| Freddie deBoer
actually putting students first means giving them what they need, not what you think they want| freddiedeboer.substack.com
no I don't know why you'd give a shit about what I think women need either| freddiedeboer.substack.com
The new subscriber writing post is coming on Monday morning.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
I grew up in a political milieu that was interesting, to say the least, and it imparted many lessons about how American politics really works that I could not have learned in any other way.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
In the waning years of the 1800s, during the late Victorian era, some came to believe that human knowledge would soon be perfected.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
their place in our culture, and their stock price, requires them to have something more profound than technology that works: they need a story to tell| freddiedeboer.substack.com
For years I've debated writing a book about the self-care industry.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
you are not in fact going to spend the rest of your life cycling from one sexy, stimulating sexual and romantic partner to the next| freddiedeboer.substack.com
they're the "right side," but so what?| freddiedeboer.substack.com
medical problems require medical solutions| freddiedeboer.substack.com
and any sufficient equality of opportunity simply is an equality of outcome| freddiedeboer.substack.com
I was on the Wisdom of Crowds podcast with Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic recently.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
it will always be 2016| freddiedeboer.substack.com
In early 2021, when the world was still 2020ing, I made a mistake: I engaged politically with that which had been intended emotionally.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
they say time is the fire in which we burn| freddiedeboer.substack.com
you're in a market, so sell something other people aren't| freddiedeboer.substack.com
This is the second time I’ve written an updated version of a previous post; this one has been redone from scratch.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond, and this means that our social contract is broken| freddiedeboer.substack.com
is it really irrelevant, or would you rather just avoid talking about it?| freddiedeboer.substack.com
Should we stop hate speech? What makes you think we can?| freddiedeboer.substack.com
Disability in general is not an identity.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
notes on a book I'll probably never write| freddiedeboer.substack.com
even smart progressive people understate how hard it is to get rich quick| freddiedeboer.substack.com
My recent post on education and optimism bias received a lot of attention, mostly positive. It occurred to me that, as I’ve written so much on this topic, it may be hard for new readers to get caught up. So here I’m laying out my gloss on the overall state of American education research, policy, and discourse, and pointing you in the direction of evidence for these ideas. This is more of a series of various observations than a conventional argument. The most thorough exploration of my tho...| freddiedeboer.substack.com
As I get older, explicitly political questions interest me less and less, and I’m motivated more and more to write about human conditions that are, in a sense, pre-political.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
The video, shot on a cellphone from a first-person view, takes place in a bathroom.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
it's still a great field, but "learn to code" has created headwinds| freddiedeboer.substack.com
Here’s what we’ve done with mental health in the popular American consciousness in the span of a few years.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps| freddiedeboer.substack.com
