The Graduation Thesis: Insufficient and Outmoded
tokyokevinThis the title of a recent article I wrote for my university research journal (Gakuen). In it, I advocate for subsuming the Graduation Thesis, common here in Japan among undergraduates,…
Moral Issues
Pew Reports of Global Moral issues. The page itself is a wonderful interface. You can use it to look at how your country compares with others, or use it to…
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
I started listening to this podcast a couple of weeks ago. I can't get enough. I remember driving all over Japan a few years ago, listening to the series about…
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…
Shooting children in the US now commonplace
Another shooting. James Fallows (Atlantic) outlined why nothing would change after the Colorado movie theater massacre. He was sadly right. One reason I am happy to live in Japan. We…