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Learning Bathroom Discipline: Let Freedom Aggregate

One of the abiding memories of school for many of us is the fact that you have to ask permission to use the bathroom and that that request can be denied you.*  We are taught in school, and perhaps this is the sole abiding goal of the institution, how to be bossed; to learn the [...]

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The Chaos of Monoculture

I hope you had a nice Father’s Day. Mine was blessed with the gift of multiple cheeses…what more can you [...]

The Custom House: Louis Agassiz with Christoph Irmscher

Episode 2 is now available for download: Agassiz, Inc. Please share far and wide, early and often. Thanks! This week [...]

The Errant Goes Audible: The Custom House on WFHB

I am hosting a radio show and podcast on WFHB, community radio, in Bloomington, IN, called The Custom House that [...]

Who Runs the Indianapolis Public Schools?

Who runs our IPS? “The crisis is not about education at all. It’s about power.” ~ James BaldwinOverview:Traditionally, local school [...]

What is Learning?

Question: Define the purpose of guttering on a house. Answer: Choose the response that represents your thinking. a. to catch [...]

The Great Lawsuit (Audio)

This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. [...]