(part I, part II) In applying Mary Daly’s elements to several areas of ritualized women’s oppression, we will see how they are all related. Daly calls this feminist process “the development of […]
Do we need a theory of creative writing? Would that save higher education? Uh, nope… (For previous essays in this series, look here, here, here and here.) This essay in the series of essays on […]
The public interest is what the public is interested in, bitches. Thanks to Facebook, we all see new memes every day. Some of them are funny, some insightful, and a lot are […]
Advertising may be evil, but sometimes it’s a necessary evil. Despite my exposure to what a colleague estimates is nearly 100 million advertising impressions as I approach seven decades of life, I […]
American businesses are anti-intellectual. American universities are anti-relevance. The gods help the overeducated schmuck stuck in the middle. Hi. I’m Sam, and I’m a PhD. Hi Sam! For those of you who […]
A 2011 study yields surprising results. The word “socialist” was, for all intents and purposes, dead and buried after the fall of the Iron Curtain. But it has enjoyed a huge resurgence […]
I apologize in advance because this is going to ramble. And be wonky. If it helps, please know that it all makes sense in my head. Our professional development program at work […]
I was in a local antique shop a few weeks ago and came across, lying on a school desk from the 1940′s, a small volume with slight water damage. I picked it up (as I […]
A newly released report from the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University tells us some things we probably already know and some other things that ought to disturb us a […]
As promised earlier this week, this book review from my 2013 reading list looks at Professor Arthur C. Danto’s series of lectures on fine art (part of the Mellon series), Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, published […]
