Why another blog?

Erik Kain 18 Comments

So I’ve decided to pretty much write exclusively about education at Forbes. They frown on too much political writing outside of their established Op/Ed bloggers. I had hoped to essentially work my way toward a more generalist blog like the one I used to write at True/Slant but that is not in the cards, at least not for now. And until some other magazine or newspaper decides to hire me (hint, hint) I’m going to run my own generalist blog here. I want to be able to post as frequently as I please, and I don’t want to hog the front page, so American Times is moving here, and my Forbes blog will be called something else. If anyone has really killer education-themed blog names they’d like to suggest, feel free to shoot away in the comments.

Anyways, you should see me post quite a lot more frequently here than on the front page, and I will cross-post regularly as well. My Forbes blogging will continue as well, but will be much more focused on education and less on other issues that I tend to like to write about such as the war on drugs, healthcare, and so forth. I will try to link to those pieces from here as well.

Also, some music.

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.

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  1. Looking forward to the move and the more frequent e-company!

    For a blog name over at Forbes I’d recommend you kinda-sorta reference Pink Floyd with: “No, Education!”* (We don’t need no education…)

    *You probably should almost certainly not name your blog this.

    • Brick in the Wall was my first thought too … what about something along the lines of “If you can’t teach, blog”

  2. “They frown on too much political writing outside of their established Op/Ed bloggers.”

    That is just aggravating. Leave it to Forbes to perpetuate only the lazy orthodoxies and assumptions of the outgoing generation’s anointed ones. Everyone I knew (outside of the blogosphere) was talking about your piece on the Swat team shooting in Arizona. Why take that away?

    • That’s cool to hear! I think Forbes is just still finding its new feet. For now , it is what it is.

      • What’s with Forbes silly “called out” comments? Just about everyone of my comments gets called out, but the person who does it never has to actually write anything or try to have a discussion.

        • I call out comments because if I don’t they don’t appear.

  4. Jesus, I’m trying to get up enough summer energy to mow the lawn and maybe post something here and you and Jason are cranking out written material at a Stephen King rate! More’s the merrier though!

  5. Well, you can’t spell education without “E.D.” – and you sort of can spell it with Kain (“E.D.-u-Kain-ting America”?)

  6. That’s a damn-solid blogroll you got there to the left. I must admit I’ve only read Sullivan once since the move to the Daily Beast.

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