More white people than black people are dying from COVID, because some white folks won’t get vaccinated.

The fallout from the bad NAEP scores continues. From Andy Rotherham: Let’s Try Plan B, Telling Parents The Truth?

Should we talk about November? Or is it going to be too depressing?

Interesting Books: Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, and Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger. The NYT article on McCarthy and their magazine article on Perry.