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7 years ago

I paid a little attention to a long-neglected RSS aggregator for student blogs. It had stopped working at some point,…

During World War II, Literature Reigned Supreme

7 years ago

Books symbolized freedom. Posters of 1942 quoted the president: “Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never…

Certainty vs. uncertainty: “In which are we more likely to be deceived, and in which has rhetoric the greater power?”

7 years ago

I've taught Plato's Phaedrus before, but in the past I have mostly focused on brief passages in which the characters…

What Grammar and Style Checkers Miss

7 years ago

Teaching students to write does not mean correcting their errors, or even preventing them from making errors. While I'm grateful…

Inside the utopian, brick-loving world of LEGO’s adult fandom

7 years ago

I used to enjoy buying my kids a $4 set of Legos for no special reason, figuring that some people…

Socrates envisaged a time when we would forget how to remember.

7 years ago

From Daisy Dunn's review of Puchner's The Written World: Socrates envisaged a time when we would forget how to remember.…

You come very close to successfully combining argument and explication here…

7 years ago

I recently came across a box of old writing, including a binder where I had saved some undergraduate papers.  …

Prosecutor praises newspaper that exposed doctor’s abuse

7 years ago

Isn't the news pointless and boring? Haven't powerful people who have no personal stake in the matter and obviously have…