Wolfe on Darwin and Chomsky
tokyokevinI thought I had decided not to read Tom Wolfe's latest The Kingdom of Speech, I had read a few reviews and remembered his declining quality since A Man in Full. I have read…
Teachers: Now a Working Class Profession
"From the Sage on the Stage to the Guide on the Side" is now about 20 years old. A little shopworn, but still a...how shall I put it....goal, of some…
Tired of Mr, Mrs, Ms? Why not Mx?
No, not motocross, which is what we used when I was a teen on a bike. This is a salutation, a title. The only time I use this in English…
Disconnecting Europe
Today showed me again why I both hate and love Spain, with a little Ireland thrown in. At the end of a vacation visiting friends in Barcelona, and family in…
Burma Bound
A friend of the family has wrangled me into volunteering as a teacher trainer for a week next January in Myanmar. The group is small, and works through a travel…