Social Justice Advocates Don't Get to Just Exempt Themselves From Politics
Sam Adler-Bell published a critique of (let’s all groan inside, for different reasons) wokeness.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
Sam Adler-Bell published a critique of (let’s all groan inside, for different reasons) wokeness.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
and a few other Mississippi Miracle thoughts| Freddie deBoer
a trap for Letterboxd reviewers so effective I wonder if that was the intent| Freddie deBoer
Today is publication day for my new novel, The Mind Reels. In the book, the protagonist Alice confronts the possibility of killing herself, as many people with bipolar disorder do. Somewhere between 30% and 60% of us attempt suicide in our lives; something like 10% to 20% of us succeed. I’m here today to explain to the younger people out there why you should not attempt to kill yourselves. The reasons you’re probably thinking of are good reasons, but that’s not what I’m talking about ...| Freddie deBoer
What follows are specific questions that I have received in my inbox in the last three or four months, or composites of questions I regularly receive.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
The 90s were better.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
can we please not redo the Waiting for "Superman" era of ed discourse? please?| Freddie deBoer
a basic asymmetry in the desire to publicize| Freddie deBoer
PLEASE SEE REVISED SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES| Freddie deBoer
this may be the pettiest thing I'll ever write| Freddie deBoer
Last week I appeared on the Reason podcast Just Asking Questions.| Freddie deBoer
watch a journalist's soul die as they say "the big innovation? it's orange!"| Freddie deBoer
which is why we should focus on what they do, not what they want| Freddie deBoer
For some time now, I’ve been trying to work out how to explain what I take to be a new period of spectacular acts of public violence.| Freddie deBoer
the greatest poverty/is not to live/in a physical world| Freddie deBoer
a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps| Freddie deBoer
once again, women are punished for doing what men were celebrated for| Freddie deBoer
You may have noticed some of the recent coverage of the “Performative Male,” a new pitiable stereotype that people with too much time on their hands are (performatively!) mocking.| freddiedeboer.substack.com
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
it deserves to be evaluated on its own merits| freddiedeboer.substack.com
I'm only asking you to observe the world around you| freddiedeboer.substack.com
its flaws demand retraction| freddiedeboer.substack.com
actually putting students first means giving them what they need, not what you think they want| 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
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
