Or Die Trying
I wrote an entire book on the life of the mind, if you can imagine that. A significant portion of the book was dedicated to the importance of a liberal education, and I've written about that topic in this space,…
We are all Tea Partiers now
Members of the Tea Party take a lot of heat, and justifiably so, for blatant hypocrisy. They want the government out of their lives, and they want to retain all the benefits of Empire. Just like the rest of us.…
Liberal Education in a Neocon Nation
What does it mean to teach liberally? The obvious answer, which might even be correct, is found in the dictionary, where we find that liberal means "broad-minded" (among other things). I agree with the dictionary but I don't think it…
Neocon Nation
As usual, I have good news if you don't like the direction the government and culture have taken: the problem's going to take care of itself. When the empire completes its fall, when the federal government loses the ability to control everything from foreign wars to domestic sex acts, when the dollar's even further in the toilet and the transportation networks are completely impotent, when the cheerleader-in-chief of American Empire can no longer destroy the lands and waters and the organisms on which we all depend, that's when we can bury the neoconservative agenda.
A partial explanation, with more to come
It seems I’ve touched a nerve. Maybe a couple of them.