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…
Browsing Category Society/Culture
Append: The spectacle now taking shape
The paradox is irresoluble: the less one culture communicates with another, the less likely they are to be corrupted, one by the other; but, on the other hand, the less likely it is, in such…
Think On’t
Here’s an issue for the mind awash in the digital image and it corresponding “emotional” content: As the mind receives this content it is acted upon by it and it responds in kind. There is…
Yesterday Unheeded: Paul Goodman’s Empty Society
Paul Goodman is always relevant. It is always shocking to me when something I read from decades past is exactly applicable to our situation. But if Mill was correct back in the 1850s, that we…
Soulless We Externalize
For Eric…seeking a French story. “But I admit that I am indulging in theoretical considerations of the short story, although happily I can disregard them when I begin to write. But I am not satisfied…
Tenure’s Just Another Word for Liberty, So Dump It!
Paul Thomas today at Schools Matter: K-12 Teaching: A Service Industry At The New Republic, “Making the Grade” poses this about the difference between college professors (notice that term “professor,” as in “one who professes”)…
Off the Wall: Educating Tomorrow’s Paradigm Today
Today, while checking the jobs board at my local school district I noticed a new position (new to me). Here it is: Digital Learning Coach: Coach serves as part of multiple educational teams, providing job-imbedded…
Circus Freaks by Design
Not long ago, one our most compromised academics (by that I mean paid shill), Jay P. Greene, posted to his blog an abstract to a journal article about “fellatio narratives” in order to point out…
Derivative Dystopias, Or Versions of America
From “Fired for Wearing the Wrong Color Shirt: The Scary Truth About Our Lack of Workplace Protections,” On March 16, at least 14 employees of the Elizabeth R. Wellborn law firm, located in Deerfield Beach,…
Indiana Rape Statistics
Yesterday our local paper printed a piece on the fact that the CDC discovered that nearly 1 in 5 high school females in Indiana have been raped. “I was shocked at the 9-through-12 rate,” Heiman…