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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Babel, in Paraphrase

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Recently I have been wandering my city with a camera and sketchbook, looking at the ways our use and design of spaces speak about what we v...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

How Twitter Helps Me Learn And Teach

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A colleague asked me recently how I use social media to reach out to current undergraduates. It seemed fitting to answer such a question o...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

A Pretty Good Year

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Last year was a pretty good year.  Or at least, what I remember of it was pretty good. As my regular readers know, I'm a professor of...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Poem - "Sage Creek"

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One of my poems was published in the latest issue of Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics .   It's a beautiful journal.  I hope you...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Good Education Should Lead To Good Questions

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"If we treat the contemplation of the best life as a luxury we cannot afford, seemingly urgent matters will crowd out the truly impor...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Martin Luther on Liberal Education

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"Therefore, I pray you all, my dear sirs and friends, for God’s sake and the poor youths’, not to treat this subject as lightly as som...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Thoreau on Liberal Education, Wealth, and Freedom

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“We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; wh...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Giving Thanks In The "Damned Country": Stegner on "Antibiotic"

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“’What a damned country,’ he said. Watching the river, he had not noticed the movement at the far corner of the garden below him, but now ...