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  • Real and Artificial Intelligence

    Real and Artificial Intelligence3

    Right now, just as I’m writing these words, I’m coming off two hours of revelations that have left me reeling. The phrase mind-blowing is a gross understatement of what has shaken my world to the core. One cause of this interior earthquake is a poem, “What It Means to Be an American.” Here are the

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  • Reagan’s Farewell Warning Was Ignored (And Now We Are Paying the Price)

    Reagan’s Farewell Warning Was Ignored (And Now We Are Paying the Price)0

    In his 1989 farewell address, President Reagan asked the rhetorical question, “Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?” He followed up with the answer:  Our spirit is back, but we haven’t reinstitutionalized it. We’ve got to do a better job

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  • Reagan Biographer: Trump is Last Hope of Reaganism

    Reagan Biographer: Trump is Last Hope of Reaganism0

    Republicans today idolize Ronald Reagan more than any historic figure with the possible exception of Jesus. He is the gold standard of GOP politics, quoted on the stump by would-be lawmakers at the local, state, and federal levels, wonks at policy centers, and Bible-toting evangelicals. In the Washington Post on Monday, on what would have

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  • Reading to Your Child: This is why it’s so important

    Reading to Your Child: This is why it’s so important37

    If you are a parent or a teacher, you most probably read stories to young children. Together, you laugh and point at the pictures. You engage them with a few simple questions. And they respond. So what happens to children when they participate in shared reading? Does it make a difference to their learning? If

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  • Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can

    Reading the Vanishing Volumes While You Still Can0

    Reading through online headlines I often see a story entitled, “Demi Moore at 58 Hasn’t Aged Well.” Though I’ve never clicked on that link, I did google “Demi Moore at 58” and thought she looked pretty darn good. Sure, she’s probably gone under the plastic surgeon’s knife a few times—those high cheek bones seem a

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  • Reading Silently Used to be Considered WEIRD

    Reading Silently Used to be Considered WEIRD0

    Nowadays, the norm when reading a book alone is to read it silently to oneself. Apparently, this practice was unusual in the ancient world. As an undergraduate I had to read St. Augustine’s Confessions (397-400), which some claim to be the first autobiography written in the Western world. At the time, I remember being taken

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