2016-03-19 18:53
One of the many carefully orchestrated myths of the corporate “reformers” who have hijacked American education this century is that opposition comes only from the Tea Party and f… Read More
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`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.
2016-03-19 18:53
The interview centers on questions of academic publishing. Here's a sample:Outside of technical fields where on-going "insider" conversations are quite necessary, there seems little continui… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This is distilled from the first chapter of my book Quentin Tarantino: Life at the Extremes. I have long felt that the discussion did not need to be centered on the filmmaker....Fredric Jame… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Choice, a publication of the American Library Association, publishes 'postcard reviews' for use by academic libraries. The point is to give a quick overview of the book, an idea of the appro… Read More
2015-02-08 13:56
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2015-02-07 13:28
The best lies sail as close to the truth as they can; the best demagoguery creates canyons out of cracks. And politicians, of course, use any tools they can to rally their supporters, making… Read More
2015-02-06 23:37
[Cross-posted from the Academe blog.]“Brian Williams Admits He Wasn’t on Copter Shot Down in Iraq,” says the headline in The New York Times. The newscaster … Read More
2015-02-06 23:35
[I posted this on the Academe blog on 12/28/2104.]Education "reformers," in an attempt to save the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), are now attempting to decouple "standards" and "high-st… Read More
2015-02-06 23:35
[I posted this on the Academe blog on 12/28/2104.]Education "reformers," in an attempt to save the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), are now attempting to decouple "standards" and "high-st… Read More
2015-02-06 23:32
[I first posted this on the Academe blog in January.]One of the most influential books on my own vision of academia and American life is Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in Ame… Read More
2015-02-06 23:26
[I first posted this on the Academe blog in December.]Thomas Frank, perhaps best known for What's the Matter with Kansas?, an examination of America's new conservatism, has an arti… Read More
2015-02-06 23:26
[I first posted this on the Academe blog in December.]Thomas Frank, perhaps best known for What's the Matter with Kansas?, an examination of America's new conservatism, has an arti… Read More
2014-11-09 02:02
Who should teach? And who should decide who teaches? What should the learning environment look like? And who should decide how it looks--and should there even be just one… Read More
2014-11-05 22:40
The fantasy of the neourb (the new urbanist): "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound t… Read More
2014-10-28 16:40
It had been years since I'd read a John Grisham novel, not since 1996, when I put down The Runaway Jury. The book was fine, even enjoyable, but my taste had moved on to the likes of James Le… Read More
2014-02-12 12:01
Chip Etier has posted a review of The Cult of Individualism: A History of an Enduring American Myth. He focuses on one of the underlying reasons I wrote the book and, in an off way, explains… Read More
2014-01-16 02:53
It may be--it certainly is--that Llewyn Davis of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis makes the music of Dave Van Ronk. One of the nice touches of the movie is the use of DVR's ac… Read More
2014-01-09 16:12
Brendan Held has written a kind review of Hard As Kerosene, It can be found here Read More
2014-01-07 14:31
There's now an interview relating to my novel Hard as Kerosene up on the Peace Corps Worldwide site. The book is published through the Peace Corps Writers imprint that is part of the Pe… Read More
2014-01-05 15:48
My great-grandfather was involved with a lynching.Not as a participant, fortunately, or victim—but involved he was.Though I had heard tales of this, I knew no details until my brother… Read More
2013-11-30 15:34
A couple of years ago, when writing a review of a rather thin offering by a respectable scholar, I found myself struggling to keep from becoming snide and catty. I had learned that writing a… Read More
2013-11-28 17:04
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a link on Facebook to a story on the high cost of higher education and student debt. Someone responded that he had worked his way through school so had no sym… Read More
2013-11-24 20:41
Last week, The New York Times published a piece concerning childhood reading--in this case, of Gone With the Wind. It appeared, oddly enough, while I was in the mids… Read More
2013-10-30 16:43
If there was one thing I learned from my Peace Corps experience it was that people everywhere know a lot more than the lucky few in the worldwide elites believe they do—and that the id… Read More
2013-10-26 14:10
This map comes from the U.S.Census Bureau (and thanks, Rodger Cunningham, for alerting me to it). It is based on self-reporting on the 2000 census. What is fascinating to me is the numb… Read More
2013-10-18 19:08
What happens when there are two major cultures in a country, and one feels that, though they represent the real spirit of the country, they are being pretty much ignored by its rulers?Lots o… Read More
2013-10-16 18:03
This link will take you to excerpts from my new book, The Cult of Individualism: A History of an Enduring American Myth. In it, I explore backgrounds that can make the "shutdown" a bit more… Read More
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