Monthly Archive: January 2017
Morning Ed: Education {2017.01.23.M}
Learnin’, Learnin’, Learnin’, Lord my brain is burnin’, rawhide…
Sunday!
A recommendation for Kubo and the Two Strings
Also, thank goodness for planes with little televisions in the back of the seat in front of you
President Obama and the Arts
The legacy of President Obama will be debated for decades to come, but it’s not too early to think about his relationship with the Arts.
Alexandra Baldwin: I Wouldn’t Hire Donald Trump, and I Won’t “Wait and See” Either
I’ll start with the positive. He is clearly a pretty good developer. I think you can chalk much of his success up to “right place, right time,” but it would be disingenuous to dismiss...
Linky Friday: It’s Been Good Knowing You
This Week: Cities, Wildlife, Transportation, and Money! (#202)
So Long, President Obama
It is hard to decouple Obama’s presidency from my personal life, but as he spends his last day in office, I can’t help but wish he stayed longer.
CNN: The people you don’t know who could be running the government on Friday
While the Senate waits to confirm Trump’s nominees, critical national security and economic posts will be led by designated acting secretaries and agency heads, like Norris Cochran who will lead the Department of Health...
Swiss Police Are Ready to Blast Drones Out of the Sky at Davos
The gunner looks like a character in a dystopian movie in which the ruling elite prepare to fight off a scrappy, tech-savvy rebellion. The reality? Maybe not that far off. Swiss police were pictured...
Morning Ed: World {2017.01.19.Th}
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. But not really in this Morning Ed.
Why Both Counterculturs Failed
Systematic eternalism depends on a foundation: some eternal ordering principle. On that, it builds a structure of justification, which gives everything meaning. By the mid-twentieth-century, this had clearly failed. Nihilism seemed the only possible...
