It’s so easy to slip into Us vs. Them thinking. That’s how we got so screwed up with this question of jurisdictions.  At first white contact it might have been possible to defend the idea that tribal people were fundamentally different from Euro-whites, because the former had been here for enough millenia for the land to shape them, both genes and memes.  But the...

During my more-or-less ten year career (divvied up into five/two/two spans, plus one) I was the best of teachers and the worst of teachers.  It depended on context.  Administration, location, demographics, goals, methods, texts, families and even — to be blunt — race.  If those aligned in one way, I had impact for the good that lasted a long time.  If the...

Due to the escalation of violence in Cote d’Ivoire, the United Nations has begun sending in approximately 2,000 more peacekeeping troops to the existing force of 8,000 ’blue helmets’ in the West African country currently embroiled in a political conflict along with three attack helicopters in order to protect civilians in face of further violence...

People, in particular readers, are so busy obsessing over the aesthetics of reading from an electronic device that they never even inquire about what electronics has done to books. They never had awareness in the first place of how books were published. Books just materialized as objects on a shelf with no history at all, unless you’re talking about the biography of...