Jonathon Kozol is an Idiot

Sez the Gadfly:

Gadfly was still a bit groggy from the holidays when this fine piece about Jonathan Kozol appeared in the Weekly Standard. The article traces Kozol's development, from failed novelist (an excerpt of his book Fume of Poppies: "The white of her belly was lovely and gay. The fire beat at us."), to teacher in an affluent Boston suburb, to Communist sympathizer, to angry old man. It's a sad story, really, about someone who has talents but simply squandered them, preferring to rail against private schools and those many decent people he perceives to be racists than to actually help improve the squalid state of inner-city classrooms.

Education Next agrees, as does the Weekly Standard.

As a good Dem Kozol should probably be speaking right to me, but the one book of his that I did try to read (Shame of a Nation) seemed like an awful lot of fluff and very little substance.