Sep 23, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 11 segments
Jen and Noam are finally back! Just in time to discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones' big piece on how she was an inattentive parent who left her kid in a bad school because reasons. OK, that's our…
Noam BlumHost
Jen MonroeHost
Except that, you know, like, it is, all of this is also Nicole Hannah-Jones's fault.
Because if you write one piece a year, if you get paid your millions of dollars or however much you get paid to write one thing a year or so, uh, you know, get ready for like a shit storm if it is something as revealing, interesting, uh, discussion-provoking as this.
And, and I mean, we could start by figuring out why exactly she gets paid, 'cause I, I swear to God we haven't heard anything from her in like two years.
... to tell us all about the, the grand experiment she did with her own daughter's schooling.
And she sent her to a, a deliberately bad public school, and the, the obvious happened.
And obviously there's, there's a lot to discuss here because Nicole Hannah-Jones is supposed to be an education reporter, and her whole thing has always been is like as far as public education is concerned, that the inequalities that exist within public education are due to race/funding.
You might need to like pull over to the side of the road, 'cause I'm gonna tell you some more shocking things.
So they send her to one of the PS schools, which the PS schools are the public schools in New York City.
Except that, you know, like, it is, all of this is also Nicole Hannah-Jones's fault.
Because if you write one piece a year, if you get paid your millions of dollars or however much you get paid to write one thing a year or so, uh, you know, get ready for like a shit storm if it is something as revealing, interesting, uh, discussion-provoking as this.
And, and I mean, we could start by figuring out why exactly she gets paid, 'cause I, I swear to God we haven't heard anything from her in like two years.
... to tell us all about the, the grand experiment she did with her own daughter's schooling.
And she sent her to a, a deliberately bad public school, and the, the obvious happened.
And obviously there's, there's a lot to discuss here because Nicole Hannah-Jones is supposed to be an education reporter, and her whole thing has always been is like as far as public education is concerned, that the inequalities that exist within public education are due to race/funding.
You might need to like pull over to the side of the road, 'cause I'm gonna tell you some more shocking things.
So they send her to one of the PS schools, which the PS schools are the public schools in New York City.
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