September 11, 2012
Case Study: Socratic Practice
I began my experience as an educator training teachers in Socratic Seminars in Chicago Public Schools for Mortimer Adler’s Paideia Project in the late 1980s. Paideia was a public school…
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September 10, 2012
Have We Reached “The End of History” with Respect to What Education Can Achieve?
Whereas once people believed that education would change the world, now people across the political spectrum tend to be skeptical. Academic performance remains stagnant despite a threefold increase in per…
September 10, 2012
The K-K-Kase for Barack Obama
If you are a KKK member, you probably don’t support Barack Obama. After all, he’s black, and you hate black people. However, in this post, I hope to convince you…
September 01, 2012
After the Welfare State
The welfare state is a relatively recent historical phenomenon. How did individuals and societies meet the needs of the poor before its emergence? And how might they deal with those…
August 30, 2012
Gary Johnson – Bleeding Heart Libertarian
I don’t always vote in presidential elections. And when I do, I don’t kid myself into thinking that my vote is going to make any measurable difference on the…
August 24, 2012
Paul Ryan: Randian or Neocon?
I comment on the Oxford University Press blog here. Excerpt: Are we just one heart attack or gunshot away from an Ayn Rand presidency? No. As the saying goes, actions…