Higher Education and the Mentoring of the Young during a Pandemic Over the course of decades, as a series of United States Surgeons General have rotated in and out of office, I have never lost hope that one of them would recognize the need to alert the public to a...
The Solution Lies in Jeopardy “The show has become part of the fabric of American life. . . . Even if you are learning facts that you are not going to be able to use in your daily life, . . . the fact itself just enriches you as a...
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. . . A time to weep, and a time to laugh. . . . A time to keep silence, and a time to speak . . . . Ecclesiastes, Ch. 3, verses 1, 4, 7...
“It is natural to disagree and engage in spirited debate—this has been our custom since the time of our Founding Fathers—but we are better than callow and cowardly attacks.” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, October 29, 2019 “Whistleblower began as a word literally referring to someone who blows a whistle. Later...
The Living and the Dead Face Off on the Porch The Porch Curriculum As administrators in higher education struggle to figure out how classes will resume next month, I offer this testimony that porches can out-perform classrooms as learning environments. The porch, in other words, is the natural habitat for...
A Conversation as Treasured as It Was Confounded Why couldn’t we just call a halt for a while – stop making those chlorofluorocarbons that are destroying the ozone layer, halt the auto assembly lines and see if we can’t come up with viable alternative transportation, halt the arms production and...
Where Limericks and Rodeo Coincide The genre of comical verse Inclines to the crude and perverse. But in an era so ratty, So messed-up and batty, Could it possibly make anything worse? In order to achieve a score that could lead to a win, a rodeo competitor must stay on...
The Promise of Historical Thinking on the Fourth of July The laws of the Early Republic “made explicit provision to protect the lands reserved for the Indians from white encroachment, and from 1796 on the laws provided that the President of the United States could employ such military force as...
Serving and Protecting in the Arenas of the Domestic and the International It is presumable that a nation solicitous of establishing its character on the broad basis of justice, would not only hesitate, but reject every proposition to benefit itself by the injury of any neighboring community . . ...
A Social Psychology Experiment Set to the Tune of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” “While they meet to talk about the problems of aging in America, Charles Kuralt has found a young woman in Santa Cruz, California, who is doing something.” A paraphrase of a remark made by Dan Rather...
