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crabwalk.com // Joshua Benton
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About Joshua Benton
My business card tells me my day job is staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. I spend most of my time writing about education policy, in Texas and elsewhere. When I can shoehorn it into my job description, I like to play foreign correspondent and report stories around the world. You can read every last story I've ever written — please, be forgiving about the early ones — at one of my other web sites, clipfile.org.
Before moving to Texas in 2000, I spent three memorable years in sunny Toledo, Ohio, working at The Blade. I wrote a lot about politics and government, with a side gig writing pompous reviews of indie-rock albums. Before that were four years at Yale University. And before even that I spent my childhood in a small town in south Louisiana. (I'm a proud Cajun.)
If The New Yorker could be everything we want it to be, it would unfailingly combine thorough, accurate, fresh, inspired reporting with fiction that runs deep and says something that hasn't been said before; it would be funny as frequently as possible; it would contribute something of worth to the national discourse; it would cast light; it would be well-wishing and it would be humane. At an age when television screens are too often bright with nothing, we value substance. Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.
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English
