Thinking While Teaching

Friday, December 12, 2025

Sanders to Dems: Do your job

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Sanders gave this advice to Democratic Socialists over the weekend:  1. Echoing Bill Belichick slogan that won the Patriots six Superbowls: ...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Trump shoots the messenger, though not on 5th avenue…and why he gets away with it

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If Democrats would stop blaming voters’ bigotry and ignorance for their election losses and pay attention to the legitimate concerns behind ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Why Democrats are still losing to Trump in spite of everything

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The 5-point advantage for Republicans reflects a preference for a party that knows how to use its power to get things done and seems to have...
Friday, July 4, 2025

How liberals should celebrate the Fourth

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Fireworks at the Navy Yard in DC, 2024 Folks on the left are often accused of being less patriotic than conservatives.  There's somethin...
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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Violence drowns out explanations

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From the peaceful Mayday protest in DC If the success of a protest movement depends on winning converts to the cause—fellow citizens who wil...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The role of protest in the opposition

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  I made this sign for the "No Kings" protest June 14 along the bridge over the interstate in Littleton. I had to leave early, ...
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Teaching history gets you thinking. Some of my thoughts end up here—about history, teaching, and the relationship between the study of history and democratic citizenship.
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