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“Eye-dology” (opens the original)
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Note: the following piece discusses comments made during public meetings. I generally do not name people making public comment unless they are public officials. The uses of the word “ideology” are so divergent as to make it doubtful that there is any conceptual unity to the term. It may refer to a comprehensive worldview, a legitimating discourse, a partisan political doctrine, culture, false beliefs that help support illegitimate power, beliefs that reinforce group identity, or mystification. I
What would four more years of Ellen Weaver look like for South Carolina? (opens the original)
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I’m guessing many of my SC readers have made up their mind about the upcoming Superintendent of Education race, but I’m hoping this information will help as they have conversations with undecided voters in the state. For everyone else, Weaver can provide an instructive example of the way Heritage Foundation-style radical politics have infiltrated traditionally nonpartisan or less partisan public offices. Subscribe nowDuring the last election for Superintendent of Education, South Carolinian
Don't believe the "moderate" pitch in November (opens the original)
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We’re about 80 days away from general elections. If the past is any indicator, many state-level candidates who tried to outdo one another in extreme positions during primary season will now try to sell themselves as moderates to appeal to a larger base of voters.In the case of incumbents without primary challengers, this is an easier task, because they weren’t put in a position to try to outdo an opponent in a partisan primary election, which usually amplifies the votes of the most intense membe
"Venmo government," administered by ClassWallet (opens the original)
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Vanessa Grossl, who worked for ClassWallet before being elected last fall as a Republican state representative in Kentucky, calls the new mode of spending “Venmo government” and predicts it will improve with time. The novelty of the programs has “gotten some of them in trouble,” she said. “But you have to uncover those bugs in any new system. It’s worth the price of innovation and discovery for working through the bugs.”— Alec MacGillis, “In the Wild West of School Voucher Expansions, States Rel
The meaning of the Fourth (opens the original)
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…We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future… You have no right to enjoy a child's share in the labor of your fathers, unless your children are to be blest by your labors. You have no right to wear out and waste the hard-earned fame of your fathers to cover your indolence.—Frederick Douglass, “What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” (July 5, 1852)<a class="button primary" href="https://otherduties.substack.com/subsc
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