Thinking While Teaching
Saturday, June 14, 2025
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One December afternoon in the 90s I wandered into the local Good Will store and was looking through the men’s shirts when another shopper tr...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Effervescent Christmas
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This ad appeared in the Boston Globe during the Christmas shopping season of 1919. Note the enticement to become consumers rather than produ...
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Should Democrats change their approach to identity politics?
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In the immediate aftermath of the election, the Times quoted Bernie Sanders explaining the results: “It’s not just Kamala,” he said. “It’s...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Dems' next move: Oppose or #resist?
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A bipartisan opening? In the aftermath of the election, Democrats need to decide whether their relationship to Trump 2.0 is resistance (a...
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Who's weirder?
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Caledonian-Record, Nov. 18, 2024, p. 1. In all the hand-wringing over the results of the recent election, I haven’t seen any comments yet o...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Whose idea was it, anyway?
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Or, You can't just blame "progressives." One cause of the Democrat's recent election disaster may have been what politic...
Saturday, November 9, 2024
What now, Democrats?
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An incomplete survey of opinion in the hours and days after the election about why the Democrats lost and how they should change cours...
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