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Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEducation

where Foucault and the Apostle Paul meet - Doctors Without Boredom

This interview with Alan Jacobs is full of all the things I love to think about! The new book has an “Interlude,” in which you point to “other pilgrims, other paths,” and one of the figures is Dorothy Day, an icon […]

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"has anyone asked working-class families if being sucked into a frantically achievement-obsessed rat race is a benefaction they are interested in?" - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay from Helen Andrews is just too enjoyable not to share: Does Currid-Halkett have anything bad to say about the new elite? She has just one complaint, which she repeats again and again whenever she senses that she is sounding too […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsEducation

"has anyone asked working-class families if being sucked into a frantically achievement-obsessed rat race is a benefaction they are interested in?" - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay from Helen Andrews is just too enjoyable not to share: Does Currid-Halkett have anything bad to say about the new elite? She has just one complaint, which she repeats again and again whenever she senses that she is sounding too […]

Matthew LoftusEducation

the college pipeline is not working for people - Doctors Without Boredom

This post from the Institute of Family Studies hammers home what I think is a really important point about college: High school graduates enroll in college at higher rates than they used to, but that has not translated to a surge in […]

Matthew LoftusEducation

the college pipeline is not working for people - Doctors Without Boredom

This post from the Institute of Family Studies hammers home what I think is a really important point about college: High school graduates enroll in college at higher rates than they used to, but that has not translated to a surge in […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

God and public schools - Doctors Without Boredom

Like Emily Hubbard, I grew up in a conservative Christian milieu that thought public schools were a moral cesspool where I would be exposed to drugs, sex, and possibly even evolutionary theory. And now she sends her kids to a […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

God and public schools - Doctors Without Boredom

Like Emily Hubbard, I grew up in a conservative Christian milieu that thought public schools were a moral cesspool where I would be exposed to drugs, sex, and possibly even evolutionary theory. And now she sends her kids to a […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyHistoryEducation

black homeschooling in America - Doctors Without Boredom

This piece about black families in America choosing to homeschool captures many of the elements that families struggle with over the public school system: Yet Fields-Smith made a point of noting the respect black families had for the people running […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyHistoryEducation

black homeschooling in America - Doctors Without Boredom

This piece about black families in America choosing to homeschool captures many of the elements that families struggle with over the public school system: Yet Fields-Smith made a point of noting the respect black families had for the people running […]

Matthew LoftusEducation

The glory of reading - Doctors Without Boredom

Micah Meadowcroft sounds a refrain that we can’t hear often enough: The glory of reading is its capacity to make us more ourselves, as we learn with minimal mediation how to pay attention and integrate within our own minds the […]

Matthew LoftusEducation

The glory of reading - Doctors Without Boredom

Micah Meadowcroft sounds a refrain that we can’t hear often enough: The glory of reading is its capacity to make us more ourselves, as we learn with minimal mediation how to pay attention and integrate within our own minds the […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducation

community impact - Doctors Without Boredom

When I was in college, I spent three summers living in Kenya and working in Kibera, an urban slum that is home to over a million people. It was there that I first felt called to long-term cross-cultural work, worked […]