September 20, 2007
Ecology and Open-System Thinking
This year brought me a new perspective on the beginning of school. Because I’d thrown my back out, I sat among the parents, rather than marching into the stadium with […]
August 30, 2007
Ethics, Politics, and Metaphor
Having just finished reading my colleague Chana Cox’s Liberty: God’s Gift to Humanity (Rowman & Littlefield 2006), I’ve been reflecting on some of the ways that ethical and political discourse […]
July 13, 2007
Roger Rosenblatt’s “Just Not For Us” Now Online
In Roger Rosenblatt’s “Just Not For Us” from the Summer issue of KR, Mr. Rosenblatt imagines a conversation in a modern “Advanced Journalism” class. Click here to read more.
July 10, 2007
Rereading Harper Lee
When earlier in the summer, Joe Queenan in his article “Summer Bummer” (The New York Times Book Review, June 3, 2007), made certain critical remarks concerning To Kill a Mockingbird, […]
April 27, 2007
To Google or To Be Googled–A Verb with a Different Meaning than You Might Imagine
[I have bumped David’s entry back to the top due to the interesting conversation happening in the comment section. – jp] For more than a decade I’ve wanted to digitize […]
March 18, 2007
On Hitchcock’s ROPE
Recently I had the opportunity again to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), this time with a group of students as part of an evening program at the college where I […]
December 5, 2006
College “Student-Athletes”
I’ve never liked football, and this sort of thing just kills me. From the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required): More than a third of the 64 college football teams […]
November 18, 2006
An Interview with Michael Lemonick, Part I
Michael Lemonick is a senior science writer for Time Magazine, where he has written over twenty cover stories about topics like particle physics, Antarctica, and dinosaurs. He is also the […]
November 15, 2006
Today Is the Day of the Imprisioned Writer
PEN is once again asking us to remember those being censored for writing: The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is marking the 26th Writers in Prison Day 2006 […]
October 11, 2006
Censorship Is Censorship Is Censorship.
“Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books “” – U.S. Supreme Court in Board of Education, […]
October 10, 2006
Authors and the Web–Why Copyright Still Matters
Funny thing happened yesterday. A poet whose work we’d published in the current issue of KR sent an email enquiring whether we’d agreed to have her poem appear on Verse […]
September 14, 2006
Please, think of the puppies.
Another good reason to think clearly and thoroughly: if you don’t, you’re going to make this puppy terribly sad. Clarity above all else!