Showing posts with label education in America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education in America. Show all posts
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Albeit they possess the Might ...

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Nonetheless, we have the will. Last Tuesday evening (April 15), after arriving home, feeding the cats, and changing out of my work clothes, ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Great Gatsby an Alternate View and an Alternate History

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The family is reading  The Great Gatsby.  It is something new for us. About 12 years ago our daughter and I read  The Sun Also Rises . After...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nothing has changed in the fifty years since Richard Hofstadter chronicled the history of anti-intellectualism. The warning bell may seem m...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave

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When has our republic not been in danger of invasion from without or subversion from within?  "[A] populist strand ... has run thr...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

BIG BANG THEORY: MORE FRIENDS THAN SEINFELD

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Friends and Seinfeld were the most successful comedies on television because they appealed to wide audiences. That may seem tautological:...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Tarzan, the Amazons, and my Mother

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Public education ain’t what it used to be.  It is a law of economics that collectivism is inefficient, an entropic downward path. So, it is...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Elisha S. Loomis and the Pythagorean Proposition

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The fact that over 300 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are known and an infinite number are possible is in and of the nature of the unive...