If there are two things that one is likely to hear from college faculty today, they are that 1. Students are too careerist, and 2. We need a more democratic society. They worry about the growing utilitarian cast of education in general, as well as the remnants of hierarchy, authority, paternalism, and inequality in today’s
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Last month, students at Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota were shocked when two students assaulted a teacher and administrator who were trying to break up a lunchroom spat: “The older student is accused of slamming a teacher against a wall, choking him and then slamming him onto the floor after the teacher tried
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Several years ago, my grandmother received a note from one of my young cousins which made her cry. If I recall correctly, the tears were of delight rather than sadness, for the note graciously thanked her for a trifle which many would have normally overlooked. Unfortunately, receiving a handwritten thank-you note seems to be increasingly
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Sun-tzu’s Art of War is a highly influential text from the 5th century B.C. Its lessons have been applied in both the East and West not only to war, but also to business, politics, law, sports, and even life. After all, as Plato reminds us in the Gorgias, life is the “great combat… greater than
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In The European, German Adorjan Kovacs makes the argument that based on demographics, the primarily Muslim migrants from the Middle East and North African will actually become the dominant population group within a generation. The Google translate of the article is a little bit rough, but his key point is that while there are 80
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Judging from the USDA food guidelines released this morning from our ever-wise government, it’s once again permissible to increase our salt intake, eat eggs, and skip breakfast if we so wish. Don’t agree with those guidelines? Never fear. We probably only have to wait for a few years until they revert to their original
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