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John Adams: Book Review of the McCullough Biography
This is an old book review I’ve written up: and I’m posting on the blog because, well, its better than letting it molder on my desktop. John Adams Review McCullough’s John Adams is a worthy read. McCullough has the art of storytelling; he knows how to make his subject powerful, compelling and relatable. By the end, the [...]
District 9: To Teach or Not to Teach
But really, do aliens have to be repulsive looking robots? Do we have to show up their physical ugliness by worse deeds (we are psychically, morally repulsive, etc?). At some level, this is a failure of imagination; we can't imagine an alternative, and that is why we are foreclosing other possible futures.
Budget Cuts = Civil Society Cuts
As a grad student, it’s impossible not to notice the massive downsizing of academia. Forced faculty/staff furloughs, bureau-induced early retirements, downsizing of departmental budgets, curtailed admissions, the American university is simply not what it used to be. As the OC register lamented, the UC system is facing transformation as “either a […]