The Louvre jewel heist and more: Letters to the Editor Oct. 26, 2025

If Inspector Jacques Clouseau were around today, these bad guys (“Sacré bleu! Louvre looted of gems,” Oct.20) would be in jail by the weekend — just a thought.Jim GrantJensen Beach, Fla.It’s great news that Beyond Meat is going to be sold at Walmart (“W’mart deal jolts Beyond,” Oct.

22).I don’t care much about stocks, but I support anything that will stop animal suffering and reduce greenhouse gases.And more people will likely buy Beyond Meat products now that its stock is so popular.Heather MooreNorfolk, Va.Rafael A.

Mangual and Naomi Schaefer Riley’s column takes a myopic and short-sighted approach to child welfare policy (“Saving Kids,” PostOpinion, Oct.19).Child welfare policy would be easy if we could make decisions based on one data point.

But responsible policymaking also weighs the impact on kids later.Do child protection investigations have enduring effects? Do they make kids healthier in the long run? The cited study does not answer these questions.Research also shows that the child welfare system is traumatizing and causes many negative effects that ripple for years after an investigation.The authors omit that the study itself says “a large body of evidence shows that both cash and in-kind transfers may have long-term benefits to children.” Strategies like financial support are an important part of child welfare policy solutions in a system that, regrettably, cannot be solved with one data point.Allison GreenPort ChesterNew York’s new math guidelines suggest that the practice of math facts and standard algorithms are not as helpful as letting students figure out their own ways to do math (“NY does number on math,” Oct.19).I can name a few people who have “figured out” ways to do math: Pythagoras, Issac Newton and Leonhard Euler, to name a few.

But they “figured it out” after decades of perseverance and research.It’s hard enough for students to understand and retain what has been explicitly taught — why make...