Issues
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The Educational-Industrial Complex
Sometimes in my academic & research reading, I run across the pejorative term “the military-industrial complex.”…
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Good Read: Universal Access to Food [A bitter satire]
The whole question of health care in America dizzies my brain. I’ve been reading articles on…
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Not just believing. Acting.
For a variety of personal reasons, I find myself musing these questions lately: 1. Can we…
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(More) On Poverty
Darrell is a nice conservative guy who got tired of the anger and hate surrounding the…
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Yeah, It Really Takes a Village
This article posted on the lovely site Good.Is caught my attention today: Want to Transform Public…
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Put One Word After Another: Neil Gaiman’s Eight Rules of Writing
Put One Word After Another: Neil Gaiman’s Eight Rules of Writing. What a great list of…
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Zero Dark Thirty : Hamlet :: Revenge : __?__
Zero Dark Thirty has garnered nearly everyone’s attention this winter. Kathryn Bigelow directed the film, her second…
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Mind, Body, and the Humble Chair
[Cross-posted from Teaching Redemptively, a blog managed by my colleagues and I who worked for several years…
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What’s the point of a teacher you can’t build a relationship with?
I’m getting to where it’s nearly impossible for me to envision teaching without seeing it as relational.…
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Why I can’t buy into Ayn Rand (Part 2)
Yesterday I began a discussion of the recent uptick in interest in Ayn Rand’s economic ideas among…
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