by Mark Santow | Aug 6, 2007 | The Public Humanist
So what is American liberalism, and how (if at all) has it changed since the 60’s? Is it truly as irrelevant to our times as the "re-branding" of Senator Clinton and others would seem to indicate? In its broadest meaning, the classical political...
by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello | Aug 13, 2007 | The Public Humanist
A recent post by Marisa Parham about students’ hesitation to use the “f” word (feminism) struck a chord with me. I have heard this for a decade from students as well as from my peer group (folks in their mid 30s). Since this disavowal of...
by Rachel Zucker | Sep 3, 2007 | The Public Humanist
In today’s drive to measure and assess all facets of education, magazines rank schools (on the national and local level) by test scores, money spent per student, and other superficial factors. As the school year begins and teachers race to learn lists of...
by Jack Cheng | Sep 6, 2007 | The Public Humanist
Sometimes I feel like a hedonist. No doubt my wife — cosigner of our mortgage, mother to my two young children, and the woman who gave me my most prized possession (a push mower) — is curious to know when these times are. Well, they happen when talking...
by Dan Gordon | Aug 20, 2007 | The Public Humanist
When I agreed to write about affirmative action for The Public Humanist, I realized quickly that the big challenge was to present this hot issue in a humanistic way. What does it mean to write about a political controversy as a humanist? Karl Marx said that the point...
