On being grateful…

…I am wiped out, truly and totally. We are nearing the end of the semester, and I am either grading, thinking about grading, or wondering why I assigned so much so that I would have to do all this grading. But last night, as everyone was heading home and I was holed up in my …

Anti-intellectualism is killing us

Jac sends this, an interesting Psychology Today essay by David Niose that includes this: America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance, and the evidence is all around us. Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooter who used race as a basis for hate and mass murder, is just the latest horrific example. Many …