I paid a little attention to a long-neglected RSS aggregator for student blogs. It had stopped working at some point,…
Books symbolized freedom. Posters of 1942 quoted the president: “Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never…
I've taught Plato's Phaedrus before, but in the past I have mostly focused on brief passages in which the characters…
Teaching students to write does not mean correcting their errors, or even preventing them from making errors. While I'm grateful…
I used to enjoy buying my kids a $4 set of Legos for no special reason, figuring that some people…
From Daisy Dunn's review of Puchner's The Written World: Socrates envisaged a time when we would forget how to remember.…
I recently came across a box of old writing, including a binder where I had saved some undergraduate papers. …
Isn't the news pointless and boring? Haven't powerful people who have no personal stake in the matter and obviously have…