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Welcoming Generation Y
Some of you probably have noticed that the posts over the last few days have appeared to be the journals of a high school student. That is because they are. It has long been an intention of mine to open… Continue reading
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Reading Plato on Death Row – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
A really powerful & timely philosophical practice. Every Wednesday, I go to Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville to facilitate a discussion group with prisoners on death row and philosophy graduate students. It’s a nice prison, as far as prisons… Continue reading
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World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over — RT
The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is further enriching the super-rich. “The… Continue reading
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The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns
Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have… Continue reading
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More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive
Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see… Continue reading
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Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive
Wow. This is a really good piece that is totally worth a read. And then a reread. And then maybe a further read. If you are someone who entered adulthood in the last few years, you are a Generation Y… Continue reading
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ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson
Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western… Continue reading
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Social Class & Dividends for the Educational Industrial Complex
Thanks to my ever vigilant colleague Carl Beck Sachs for pointing the article below out to me. I had seen it in my “topic alert:pedagogy” from the NYTimes, but did not know if I wanted to read it. I’m glad that… Continue reading
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MOOCs as capital-biased technological change
Last week my Twitter feed briefly turned into a kind of massively open online course about MOOCs, in response to this thoughtful critique by Aaron Bady of an earlier post by Clay Shirky advancing an optimistic view of the role that… Continue reading
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DOJ & HSBC Settle It: The War on Drugs is a War on Poor People
Thanks to my good colleague & brother Carl Sachs for pointing out this story. More to think about in the war on drugs as a war against the average citizen when banking institutions are allowed to do business with the… Continue reading
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The New Jim Crow: Enslaving our Future
In case you don’t have it in you to read the book–which I highly recommend as something you SHOULD read–here is a very nice overview. Do not let yourself believe that incarceration in the United States of America is doing… Continue reading
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Robots, Robber Barons, & the Situation for Existential Innovation
A more full account from Paul Krugman on some of the topics I originally brought up yesterday. Still, can innovation and progress really hurt large numbers of workers, maybe even workers in general? I often encounter assertions that this can’t… Continue reading
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