By C. On the first day of classes I, like most teachers, introduce my students to the syllabus and class expectations. I have draconian-seeming rules that students often don’t believe and even many colleagues question. More...
By . Increasingly, political figures on the right seem to vie with student groups on the left in their demands for safe spaces: a campus safe from debate with those bearing different perspectives, a country safe from those bearing different religions. More...
By . I'm an English professor because I love to help students probe the texture of a masterfully crafted image or the gnarly complexity of a brilliant sentence. More...
By . I’m reading my old torn books by Thomas Davidson, who took his teaching to the Adirondack Mountains and to the streets of New York at the tail end of the 19th century. More...
By David Wootton. We do write about progress, for the simple reason that the fact that science progresses (at least over the last 400 years) is one of the most remarkable things about it, and to that progress we owe many of the things we value in our contemporary world. More...
By Thomas L. Carson. Lincoln was a master politician and a very ambitious one. But his political activities and political ambitions served a higher moral purpose. As he said of himself, he sought to acquire the esteem of others by rendering himself worthy of their esteem, and he wanted to be remembered for doing things that redounded to the interest of humanity. More...
By . After reading through a policy speech prepared by John Kenneth Galbraith, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the economist. "You know, Ken," he said, "the trouble with economics is it’s like peeing in your pants. More...
By Marc Parry. In the summer of 2011, the Center for American Progress published the results of a landmark investigation into the rise of American Islamophobia. The liberal think tank’s report, called "Fear, Inc.," documented how seven foundations had directed more than $40 million to a small network of "misinformation experts" whose message of "hate and fear" reached millions of Americans. More...
By . Intellectual disability, ‘Martian Time-Slip,’ and the way we read. More...
By . Do we live in a "Second Gilded Age," a reiteration of the late 19th century, when "robber barons" like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and J.P. Morgan soaked the poor, bought the Senate, and swashbuckled their way into the imagination of Mark Twain, who coined the term in 1873. More...
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