by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Aug 18, 2008 | The Public Humanist
As chronicled in my previous essay, my mother’s new neighbor, Radovan Karad~i , was brought by helicopter to the prison now called "United Nations Detention Unit" in Scheveningen, across the street from my mother’s house. An "ordinary...
by David Tebaldi | Aug 21, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I’m wondering why we need a license to get married, but we don’t need a license to have kids – especially considering the fact that a bad marriage is easily undone and does no irreparable harm, whereas bad parenting can create a legacy of misery that...
by Hayley Wood | Aug 25, 2008 | The Public Humanist
My father and I are sitting on his couch, watching the Bowling for Columbine on a large screen TV in his home in rural Michigan, about an hour away from Michael Moore’s hometown of Flint. My father and I don’t know each other very well yet –we met...
by Maggie Kaiser | Aug 28, 2008 | The Public Humanist
For nearly twenty years, the organization I work for has connected children with histories and cultures of the world through primary sources. Countless educators have used these resources to bring distant lands and far off peoples into the classroom; students’...
by Rachel Zucker | Sep 2, 2008 | The Public Humanist
About two years ago I created a post on Craigslist Shanghai. It explained that I was a teacher in the US, looking for another educator in China who was interested in having his/her students communicate in English with my high school students. I figured that either no...
