KEVIN DRUM

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Lead and Crime | National Review: By now you very likely know about Kevin Drum’s fascinating article arguing that changing levels of childhood exposure to lead explain the massive rise and subsequent decline in U.S. crime rates ove…

Matt Yglesias and the Edu-Nihilism Straw Man: Matt Yglesias thinks that Kevin Drum’s follow-up to James Heckman’s paper is “far and away the most persuasive criticism of the “education reform” movement—the decent evidence for edu-nihilism”. By ‘edu-nihilism’ Yglesias is referring to the belief that the current education reforms are wrong-headed and that in fact poverty rather than bad […]

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Kevin Drum (born October 19, 1958) is an American journalist . he first rose to prominence through his independent blog Calpundit . in 2008, he took a writing and blogging position at Mother Jones magazine . he was born in Long Beach, California and currently lives in Irvine, California . while at CSULB he served as city editor of the university’s student run newspaper . he subsequently got a technical-writing Drum’s blog is known for offering original statistical and graphical analysis . his posts on education often spark discussion . he is skeptical about flavor-of-the-month school reforms . at Calpundit, he is credited with pioneering the trend of “Friday catblogging” he says Hillary Clinton’s actions were “non-scandalous” and she is “honest Drum considers Benjamin Franklin his all-time favorite political hero . he married in 1993; he and his wife Marian have no children . Drum updated readers that it has been two years since his diagnosis .