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Wilde Cards is the Literary Game Readers Have Been Waiting For
Can you outwit great authors? Go Wilde!
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Et Tu, Data? Julius Caesar As Seen Through a Moving Topic Model
It’s that time of year again when the Ides of March are upon us once again.
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Parent: "There are more smoke shops than bookshops." She's right.
An offhanded remark sent me down a data rabbit hole. What I found made me wince.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
Plato's Teacher Would Have Hated AI
Socrates feared that writing would destroy the mind. Plato disagreed — which is why we know that. Now we have AI, and the argument is back.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
The Thing About AI in Schools That Actually Excites Me
The forgotten two: speaking and listening
 • Tom Liam Lynch

February 2026

The Walking Unread: What We Get Wrong about Literacy
The answer is "write" in front of us.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
You Think You Know Rubrics
A short history of rubrics and the sneaky way they just might revolutionize teaching.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
E Pluribus... Pedagogy
A surprising lesson most Americans haven't learned: there is no American education system. Not exactly.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
The Paradox of Education Reform, in a Number
A little simple math blew my mind. Students are out of school WAY more often than they are in school. And that matters.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
What Wynton Marsalis Taught Me About Teaching
I had never considered becoming a teacher. Until that one day.
 • Tom Liam Lynch
Below The Screen Lurk Sub-Screenic Literacies
A look back at how software, including AI, might better be thought of as writing.
 • Tom Liam Lynch

January 2026

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