In a recent article entitled “The American Political System and White Racial Discourse,” I suggested that White advocacy dialogue and debate [m]ake room for American voices—Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and (I’m thinking out loud) Emerson and Thoreau and Mark Twain and Edgar Rice Burroughs (the Tarzan author) and Teddy Roosevelt and H.L. Mencken and […]
In the recent mid-term elections (this is being written in December of 2022), Democrats, apparently with a good amount of success, charged Republicans with being no less than a threat to American democracy. My goodness—I guess hyperbole goes over big in this text-and-Twitter-depth age. Whatever its success as a campaign tactic, a great deal has […]
This was posted a week ago for a day with comments put off until this re-posting—the writing gets into what that’s about. If you missed this post the first time around and want to participate in the comments section, you have time. This will be on the site a week or so before being archived. * * * Much of […]
This writing sketches out a perspective on schooling and education (they are different things; more on that later on) for your consideration, including what, if anything, to do about it. Me: Retired after a career in schooling, first as a high school teacher and later a professor of education. Late in life, the birth of […]
