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Teachers Against the Robots

S. A. Dance

Two years ago, on November 30, OpenAI made their text generator software ChatGPT available to the public. On December 1, millions of students across the world stopped doing their...

Authentic Grammar in Classical Schools

S. A. Dance

I regret to report that grammar schools no longer teach grammar. It is considered as retrograde as observing that girls prefer dolls and boys prefer war or insisting that boys...

The Audiovisual Grandeur of Oppenheimer

S. A. Dance

For Christopher Nolan, cinema is an “audiovisual experience.” To know what he means, one needs to watch Oppenheimer. Nolan anticipates Oppenheimer’s critics who fault what they see as an...