Brendan McCormack

High school teacher.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

And, regardless of what the t. unions are doing wrong, surely a worse problem is a drying pipeline into the teaching profession. Not excusing t. union problems, just adding that there’s a pipeline externality if you try to solve just the union problem(s).

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@GlennLoury Hi Glenn, high school teacher here. I’m a frequent listener to your show. You talk often about how teacher unions stand in the way of meaningful school reform. Could you spend part of an episode on how to solve the teacher shortage? 1/2

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

Specifically, could you address the idea of monopsony and its relationship to labor unions and school districts? Many teachers would quit if salaries lowered and conditions worsened than at present. Ostensibly our unions prevent those from happening. 2/2

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@WithTheYew @CheriJacobus @davidfrum Rented

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@davidfrum @JohnDickie1 My deranged uncle, a catholic priest and an adherent to the Society of St. Pious X, blames the diddling of catholic children on Freemasons who infiltrated the church, “became” priests, and fucked all those kids to tarnish the church’s reputation.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@SarahTheHaider I don’t know that the right needs more atheism, but maybe just a deprioritization of religion. A huge center-right coalition could be built around economic conservatism if the religious right just got out of the way. You can be pro-Western without being pro-Christian.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@nytimes https://t.co/4HP0tXFmVc

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@JamesSurowiecki @Daniel_Plume @peterboghossian And at a velocity of 0.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@ElrodOf @wil_da_beast630 Plenty of moderate Dems would vote for a moderate GOP candidate. They aren’t seeing many moderate GOP candidates.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@rodneysampson @christopherrufo Okay, but hindsight doesn’t fix the grid problems. You don’t appear to be offering a solution (which is fine if you didn’t intend to), but you do appear to be justifying the proximate causes of the grid problems.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@NinoRheaume @cliftonaduncan His prose is perfectly “cromulent” 😂
https://t.co/YLbEs2BxFJ

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@HamptonStevens @whitepatrick @davidfrum @DouthatNYT I did not claim specific people had been silenced, but nor does the Douthat piece. Douthat says if *you* the reader agree that illiberal means of silencing people who disagree with you is appropriate and/or necessary, then the word woke probably describes you.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@whitepatrick @davidfrum @DouthatNYT Lest my “sneaky” word choice imply hostility, let me try “rhetorically clever” instead.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@whitepatrick @davidfrum @DouthatNYT No, that’s not what *Douthat* is saying. Douthat is saying that “woke” describes people who believe the things he listed.

Sneaky of you to euphemize to “discriminate [against]” and to “silence” as to “inconvenience.”

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@michaelshermer Wasn’t it Sam Harris who pointed out that accepting/acknowledging the term “atheist” is problematic because it suggests the burden of proof to be on the side of people who don’t believe in a god?

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@wil_da_beast630 This Zora Neale Hurston quote reflects my take on racialized pride. Calling it ‘pride’ also seems to invoke an us-v-them frame, which is an absolute non-starter for me.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@wil_da_beast630 My hesitation is that consent to duel might be analogous to a “crime of passion”—a decision made when blinded by rage or other heightened emotion or immediate pressure to save face. Consent needs to be secured, say, a week in advance to allow for a cooling-off/rethinking period.

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@FitFounder That’s a lot of kids to have in one month!

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@calvinrobinson Forgive my ignorance… who aren’t hiding what anymore?

[Brendan McCormack @Bee_Mc_Cee]

@davidfrum Thanks for sharing, David! My next read!