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On Becoming Sheepdogs, a Modern Fable
Posted on June 13, 2020 | 1 CommentEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST Anchor.fm Spotify iTunes In the wake of recent events regarding the tragic death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, this letter seems […]
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Are We Killing the Fat Man? The Corona Trolley Dilemma
Posted on April 18, 2020 | 14 CommentsEmail3Facebook4Twitter1Reddit2X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST SPOTIFY ITUNES ANCHOR.FM THE TROLLEY PROBLEM The Trolley thought experiment, first put forth by the philosopher Philippa Foot, pits two schools of moral thought […]
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For the Class of 2020 During the Pandemic, a Poem and a Mother’s Wish
Posted on March 23, 2020 | 4 CommentsEmail2Facebook4Twitter0Reddit2X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST Spotify Anchor.fm iTunes Today’s letter is for high school seniors, for my son and his classmates, for my friends’ children, for Andrew and for […]
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Common Core in Connecticut: Bureaucracy Beats Democracy
Posted on November 17, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0FacebookTwitter1Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 A panel of speakers discussed the Common Core this week at the New Canaan Library with a room full of concerned citizens. Connecticut adopted verbatim the new standards in […] -
UCLA today: Students take ‘diversity’ and skip history
Posted on November 7, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit1X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 The faculty of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) College of Letters and Sciences voted Friday a close 332 to 303, with 24 blank ballots, in a […] -
Don Quixote’s Advice for the New Congress
Posted on November 6, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Election results are in. A news anchor announced last night that Congressman Michael Grimm from Staten Island won reelection, though he faces 20 counts of fraud and a pending federal […] -
The GoldFinch – Donna Tartt – Spew-litzer Prize Study in Victimology
Posted on November 5, 2014 | 2 CommentsEmail0FacebookTwitter0Reddit0X Linkedin1 Stumbleupon0 I kept reading The Goldfinch for several reasons: it was my reading group’s selection, I had to facilitate the discussion, and it won the Pulitzer for Fiction. This became the […] -
What would Don Quixote do? Quixote on Families and Greatness
Posted on November 3, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit1X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Don Quixote himself will answer this question, and I promise to relate such counsel as faithfully as this modern, wretched hand will permit. You may ask, “Who […] -
Why Colleges Are Failing Our Students – Harvard Gets a “D” and Brown Gets an “F”
Posted on October 19, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 If you were wondering why college graduates are struggling to find jobs, this explains part of the problem. Many colleges don’t require core subjects like U.S. government/history, literature, […] -
“Who goes? who gets left behind?” – Last Days in Vietnam
Posted on October 14, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Hurry up. Last Days in Vietnam is playing in Pelham, New York until Thursday, October 16. Book your tickets online [Link for tickets], because the screening room only has 12 seats. We watched […] -
High School Sports: Vulgarity vs. Virtue
Posted on October 12, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Exhausted and losing, the Viking girls huddled on the court and referring to their opponents, team captain Idalis Figueroa said, “That’s not who we are. At King […] -
Condoleezza Rice warns “Terrorists are not tired” at her Thayer Award Reception
Posted on October 9, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 I will never forget standing at my desk in the White House; my young assistant coming to me and saying that a plane had hit the World […] -
Cut the Flab, a Writing Primer
Posted on October 3, 2014 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Simple steps to improve bloated writing In a digital world, many people only know you through your writing. At work and in your personal life, social […]