On Denigrating America
Conservative media regularly criticize President Obama for denying American exceptionalism, for claiming the country needs to be “transformed,” and for [...]
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03, 2014
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03, 2014
Humor and Learning
Why do many teachers have the attitude that learning is such serious business that any hint of humor undermines it? [...]
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03, 2014
Educators Still Don’t Get It
In a 2013 interview with the NY Times, Laszlo Bock, senior operations VP at Google, reported that the company now [...]
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03, 2014
O’Reilly vs. Limbaugh on Obama
Although media titans Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh are both critical of President Obama’s policies, they deal very differently with [...]
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02, 2014
An Occasion of Grace
I was driving to Mass on a recent Sunday morning. There was one car ahead of me on the residential [...]
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02, 2014
Have They No Shame?
Suppose your spouse said on Monday, “We have to cut back on our sugar consumption because eating too much is [...]
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02, 2014
The Pharisee’s Confession
I know it couldn’t have happened, but imagine that the Pharisee in the famous Gospel parable had gone to confession. [...]
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01, 2014
The Blame Game
It’s easier to point at others than at ourselves. If you doubt me, try this—extend your arm and point straight [...]
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01, 2014
Moral Dilemmas in Washington
A moral dilemma is a situation in which a choice must be made between conflicting courses of action, each of [...]
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01, 2014
Learning from Our Mistakes
Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By this [...]