Recently we attended a 6th grade “graduation.” The move from 6th to 7th grade seems to me, if not necessarily one to honor in our school system, one that likely marks a very real transition….
Date Archives May 2012
What Manner of Creature Be This?
The Errant has frequently offered for your edification detailed reports on the fraudulent nature of the corporate reforms in “education.” I do not plan on writing anymore about this, though will still encourage our stalwart…
What Is a National Consciousness?
Henry James in his critical study of Hawthorne in 1879 (my textual break) on the “American mind” before and after the Civil War. When this event occurred, he was therefore proportionately horrified and depressed by…
Breaching the Sound
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What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive!
Some poems from Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. The Portent. (1859.) Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! The cut is on the…
The Money Virtue As American Rational Religion
The most virtuous and honest character in Dickens’ Hard Times, Stephen Blackpool, often confronts the confusion, ambiguity, paradox, and unfairness of “interests” with an aggrieved and exasperated cry that “it’s all such a muddle.” Even…
Clausewitz On the Modern Condition
So, don’t ask me why, but I fell into Clausewitz this morning. From the Ubiquipedia: Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral (in modern terms, “psychological”) and political…
The Child of the Marketplace Metaphor
Since the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay, organized in covenants as a joint stock company, imagined themselves a mystic brotherhood reborn in the body of Christ, American history has progressed under the sway of two, conflicting…
Public Potluck Picnic Perfection
There is real humanity in the potluck picnic. Or rather, a humanity that is real: personal, physical, unmediated. Yesterday, after our annual, end-of-the-year elementary public school music program, the families of students in the the…
In the City of Corporate Love and Beyond: The Boston Consulting Group, Gates, and the Filthy Rich
When the Michelle Rhee/Betsy Devos-endorsed Pennsylvania governor, Tom Corbett, slashed $1.1 billion in educational funding over the last two years, he was merely continuing the disaster capitalism agenda against Philadelphia schools which began in 1998,…