Open Letter to My Colleagues: As I ventured to compose this essay, I thought of the words I would use to begin. A couple came to mind: Pablum. Equanimity. Both from the Principal. And a few from me: Log. Splinter....
On a Friday afternoon in 1957 I was a little girl in the second grade waiting for the parish priest to arrive for his weekly religion class. This time was different. He set up a screen and a slide projector,...
As a mid-career English professor, I have spent a lot of time wondering whether the skills I teach are really important. In a widely-circulated New York Times Op/Ed piece in September 2004, David Brooks described used the terms "paragraph people"...
I am a politician. Oh yes, I know that sounds like a confession, but when at the end of the War I went into politics, it was because, like many other men in their 30s at the time, I wanted...
Many people believe that, whereas it is exceedingly difficult to find an absolutely valid, rational answer to our perennial question as to the why and wherefore of this world, the quest for truth should be abandoned altogether as a foolish...