During my classes today, we discussed the Cold War and how the fear that Communism would spread to the US led to an anti-Communist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. I wanted to get my students thinking about loyalty and disloyalty, so I told them that during World War Two, one of the things the [...]
My tendency on this blog is to really strictly limit the topics I talk about because… well, because I don’t want to alienate anyone. Not everyone shares my politics, and I want this to be a friendly space that everyone feels comfortable frequenting. But the problem with that, of course, is that I wind up [...]
Does it strike anyone else as strange that Haiti isn’t really in the news lately? A massive natural disaster strikes the area, killing hundreds of thousands of people, leaving countless numbers homeless and in desperate need of assistance. And it captures our attention for, what, a week? Two weeks, tops? And now it seems as [...]