If you're thinking about doing an assignment where students send a letter to public figures to ask questions about current events (not the worst idea, right?), you better make sure that none of your kids chooses to write to economist Thomas Sowell. Claus von Zastrow explains. Pondiscio, too. Jeez ...
(Hat tip: Nancy Flanagan.)


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