Matthew Weinberg

Why Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Is the Perfect Moment to Reconnect Homer with Science, Medicine, and Literacy Christopher Nolan has accomplished something that would have pleased an ancient rhapsode: he has gathered an enormous audience around the story of Odysseus. Universal reported that The Odyssey opened with $263.8 million worldwide, the largest global opening of Nolan's career. By August 16, 2026, the film had earned more than $1.2 billion globally and remained in second place at...

Why Decentralization May Be Recreating One of the Most Dangerous Problems in American Education Education has changed, and anyone arguing seriously about its future has to begin by acknowledging that fact. The educational system designed for the twentieth century cannot simply be preserved in amber and expected to serve children living in a radically different technological, cultural, and intellectual environment. Yet from that reasonable observation, we have increasingly made a much more...

The Dangerous Myth Behind Homeschooling and the Deprofessionalization of Education When I completed medical school and entered oncology, I believed I understood biology well enough to teach it. The belief seemed entirely reasonable. I had studied anatomy, physiology, pathology, genetics, microbiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, and the cellular mechanisms of disease. Oncology required an intimate understanding of what happens when the ordinary systems governing cellular growth,...