December 2008
As there was no compulsion towards a conflict which, in despite of the apparent bitterness of parties, took so long to engage and needed so much assiduous blowing to fan the flame, so no right was vindicated by its ragged end. The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading,...
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Course design worksheet, by Dee Fink...
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"What is Significant Learning?," by Dee Fink
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Unknown artist, "Missionary Map" (19th-century,...
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Watercolors of Algonkian tribesmen in Virginia, painted by John White, published in 1585. From the Smithsonian Magazine (http://snipr.com/924ul). > See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from NBR | Comment »
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“Defilement is never an isolated event. It cannot occur except in view of a...”
– Mary Douglas on “The Abominations of Leviticus,” from Purity and Danger (1970, rpt. Routledge, 2002), p. 51 (Google books link; webpage reprint) Mary Douglas was a genius. She repudiated the overall interpretation from which this quotation was taken in 2002.
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Chesterton on journalism
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“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving...
“But you’ve got to give Bush credit. The guy moved pretty quickly… He...”
– Late Night with David Letterman (via robertmowery) (seen in Dan Froomkin’s Washington Post blog).
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Scott Horton on prosecuting the Bush...
“This administration did more than commit crimes. It waged war against the law itself. It transformed the Justice Department into a vehicle for voter suppression, and it also summarily dismissed the U.S. attorneys who attempted to investigate its wrongdoing. It issued wartime contracts to substandard vendors with inside connections, and it also defunded efforts to police their performance....
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Eisenhower on preparing for war
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school...
“Wer am meisten liebt, ist der Unterlegene und muß leiden.”
– Thomas Mann, “Tonio Kröger” (1903). Translation: “The one who loves more is the inferior one and must suffer.” (Project Gutenberg link, in German.)