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Jill LawrenceJill Lawrence, author of "The Art of the Political Deal," is an opinion writer for The Bulwark and other publications. She is a former politics editor, reporter and columnist at USA Today, National Journal, the Associated Press and The Daily Beast. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjau1y6Wjmq%2BimruksQ%3D%3D

In the early 1990s when my wife Trudi and I home schooled our three kids I discovered the great John Taylor Gatto. Born in Washington County south of Pittsburgh, where we were living, Gatto, a libertarian, was becoming famous as a ‘Johnny Apple Seed’ of home schooling, unschooling and charter schools. His best-selling book ‘Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling’ was an all-out attack on the harm public schooling does to the minds and souls of children from a man who won awards teaching in them for three decades.

The Shrink Next Door—the first three episodes of which released Friday on Apple's TV+ content farm—is perhaps the most Jewish show currently on air. It is more authentic in its portrayal of Judaism than anything I've seen since last year's adaptation for HBO of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. But where that show was set in the 1940s, safely trapping its Jews in the traditionality of yore, The Shrink Next Door daringly proclaims that Jews existed as recently as the '80s.