Conscience and Convenience in Liberal Arts Education
David Rothman’s book Conscience and Convenience provides a history of corrections in America and argues that the good intentions of reformers (conscience) are often thwarted by individuals and organizations (convenience)during the implementation and evaluation...Emerson's Ghosts and the UMass Amherst Colloquium on Social Change
Not so long ago, I picked up a copy of Philip Gura's new book on Transcendentalism — that brief flowering of the New England mind — and it started me thinking again about that most American tension, how self and society articulate. As a nation, we have...You can have my Internet when you pry it from my typing hands
It's good to be back in the saddle. I'm still hacking and I sound terrible, but I'm back to moving dogies along. This flu business–I don't recommend it.And item one on the agenda is something I've been meaning to get to since before I got...The upside of swine flu
Because the doc says I have flu, and the CDC says 99% of flu right now is the swine version, I can with some unpleasant confidence say that, hooboy, I seem to have got the stuff! I'm happy to report that all seems well after 3 days (one of them an absolute...E-Edition
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