Taking a close look at vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, Jude Russo considers Walz’s self-identification as a humble school teacher who understands the interests of the average family. Don’t be fooled by his claims to ordinariness, Russo warns in The American Conservative: “The fanaticism of the public school teacher is rivaled only by that of the unionized transit official.”
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.