Auguste Meyrat

1 week ago | thefederalist.com | Auguste Meyrat

It has now become apparent that the television series Clarkson’s Farm is no longer about Jeremy Clarkson or about farming. It’s about England. Sure, the first couple of seasons centered on Jeremy Clarkson — the TV personality, writer, and one of England’s sexiest men — bumbling about on a farm in the British countryside. Meanwhile, his heroic farm manager Kaleb Cooper and accounting genius Charlie Ireland were placed on high alert to make sure Clarkson didn’t kill himself or go bankrupt.

1 week ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Auguste Meyrat

Given its premise and trailer, one could be forgiven for thinking that the AppleTV+ series, Your Friends and Neighbors, is a thriller or dark comedy. An unfairly maligned hedge fund manager, Andrew Cooper, commits white-collar crimes while fooling everyone around him about his identity? It seems the perfect role for the debonair, articulate, and virile Jon Hamm, who masterfully played an advertisement executive in Mad Men and a formidable criminal villain in Baby Driver.

2 weeks ago | thefederalist.com | Auguste Meyrat

Texas Gov. Greg Abbot recently signed into law a bill that would require phone users under 18 to seek “parental approval before they can download apps or make in-app purchases.” No longer can children and teenagers download apps like Instagram and TikTok immediately after their parents buy them a smartphone. They will need to ask their parent to present ID to approve of the download.

1 month ago | brownpelicanla.com | Auguste Meyrat

As school choice becomes the law of the land, particularly here in Texas, this has raised some fundamental questions on how much choice parents will be allowed to have. Not only are there many different pedagogies and teaching styles parents could conceivably prefer, but there is also a wide array of deeper guiding principles that inform instruction, many of which are explicitly religious.

1 month ago | rlo.acton.org | Auguste Meyrat

As school choice becomes the law of the land, particularly here in Texas, this has raised some fundamental questions on how much choice parents will be allowed to have. Not only are there many different pedagogies and teaching styles parents could conceivably prefer, but there is also a wide array of deeper guiding principles that inform instruction, many of which are explicitly religious.