Like the distant call of a horn announcing the arrival of the cavalry, news broke this week of Trump’s executive order investigating DEI in higher education. It’s a welcome announcement, and I greet it as gladly as any other fair-minded…
It is quite possible to be well read and completely stupid. They are not incompatible. But, as a sociologist, let me tell you that people who still read, even as a gesture of resistance, have a greater chance of understanding…
This semester at Thales College, I am teaching a survey course focusing on literature, most of it English poetry, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. I have two auditors in the class. One of them is still in high…
With ongoing reports of supposed “book bans” and legislation being passed to “combat” them, it’s important to understand what’s really going on. Both the side arguing that these books somehow “save lives” as well as the side saying, “You’re an…
