By Michele Narov 8/01/12 2:00pm

Math and Its Problems

Hacker and wife. (Tequila Minksy)

Times Op-Ed Scribe Andrew Hacker Remains Staunch Opponent to Mandatory Math, Finds Reaction By ‘Math People’ To Be Typical

In The New York Times opinion section on Sunday, CUNY professor Andrew Hacker asked readers a question: Is Algebra Necessary? Mr. Hacker eventually reasoned the answer was no. Hundreds of his readers across the country screamed back, “Yes!”

These opinion articles are predisposed to garner strong reactions. Close to 100 readers might comment on an opinion piece on a controversial topic such as American involvement in the Middle East. Mr. Hacker’s article drove 474 commentators to their computers before The Times stopped accepting the respondents.

They weren’t to be halted; they then turned to the open platform of the web. Read More

By Maria Russo 3/10/03 12:00am

As Women Rise and Men Sink, Marriage Breaks Down Entirely

Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men , by Andrew Hacker. Scribner, 199 pages, $25.

Into a culture jammed with strenuously creative strategies for marrying off its unwed citizens-from Married By America to the Defense of Marriage Act-comes the political scientist Andrew Hacker to shut down the party with Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Read More

By Fred Siegel 4/02/01 12:00am

Outdated New York Review : Radical Chic Forever

Almost everyone knows a sad sack who can’t move on. He’s the

college athlete who’s still wearing his faded championship jacket long after

his brief triumph. The New York Review of

Books is a magazine version of that guy. A cutting-edge publication in the

1960′s, when the street fighters at Elaine’s signed on to the Read More