The Washington Post reported this week that the government is collecting and assembling many more details about our travel habits than previously thought. Kerryn sent the article this morning with a subject warning us Big Brother knows too much–you reading habits in flight, travel companions, itineraries, and whether you prefer a king-size bed or two [...]
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Today's Court of Public Opinion on You Tube
A show on a tech TV show asked their viewers this week, “Have video vigilantes gone too far?” This isn’t about the wild, wild, west or just another day in my great state of Texas; it’s a story about modern technology with all the potential for progress and risk of abuse that comes with it. [...]
Taking the Academy Back to School
How have you managed to work your ideas, understandings, and efforts at the National Academy into your classroom? It might be small. In a recent e-mail, Larry mentioned working Aristotle, Hobbes, and Locke into his conversations with students. That’s a good place to start. I remember telling a student she sounded like Aristotle. She stood [...]
Duty Bound to Civic Education
With a NY Times op-ed titled “The War as We Saw It,” a group of infantrymen and non-commissioned officers from the 82nd Airborne Division answered a different call to duty last week. As Washington gears up for a series of progress reports on Iraq, this group of servicemen offer their own voice of experience… Counterinsurgency [...]
Will's Pedagogy: A Fragment
This post is pretty pedantic; it is a simple summary (in outline form) of my “take” on Will’s pedagogy. School starts on Monday (August 20), so one day last week I took some time to reflect on what Will taught me about teaching, with the goal of weaving his perspectives into my classes. Maybe this [...]
Front of the Class: Ecuador's Campaign for a New Constitution
From 3,000 candidates, the people of Ecuador will elect 130 representatives to attend a constitutional assembly to draft a new charter. Candidates to be one of those 130 define the issue with the current charter to be… It allows for a political mafia to run the country; candidates promise the new charter would dissolve Congress. [...]
