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The article on education in the last issue addressed educational goals. The article that takes up this issue addresses the question of educational means, and particularly how various means of education that are taken to be essential to education, such as grading and the school as a beehive of classrooms, become ends in themselves. That leads to the neglect of what strictly speaking constitutes education, which is the development of the ability in students to engage in disciplined thinking.
The purpose of this e-journal is to use in tandem the techniques of literary criticism and social structural analysis to illuminate American politics and the various institutions in American society and sometimes matters more global, like religion or war, by turning an eye on the events and objects and performances that are considered art and entertainment, those defined broadly enough to include whatever is covered in newspapers and other media. Another concern is to pick up the texture of social life, both in the United States and in general, through the analysis of those events, objects and performances that are to be found in everyday life. |
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The Political Ticker
On the Brink of the Florida Primary
- January 30, 2012
The Tampa Bay Republican Debate
- January 24, 2012
Since the South Carolina Primary
- January 23, 2012
On the Brink of the South Carolina Primary
- January 21, 2012
The 2012 New Hampshire Primary
- January 11, 2012
The 2012 Iowa Caucuses
- January 4, 2012
Previous Political Tickers
Iowa on the Brink
-December 24, 2011
Birenbaum: The Long View on Disability and Employment
-December 15, 2011
Herman Cain and Other Republican Fiascos
-December 6, 2011
The Consensus on Obama
-November 18, 2011
The Michigan Republican Debate
-November 11, 2011
Rick Perry's Vamp
-November 1, 2011
The Huntsman Longshot
-October 30, 2011
The Dartmouth Republican Primary Debate
-October 12, 2011
Politics Beyond Hopeless
-September 26, 2011
The Palestine Resolution at the UN
-September 19, 2011
The Tenth Year 9/11 Anniversary
-September 9, 2011
The Takeaway on the Republican Debate
-September 8, 2011
Troubling Political Behaviors
-September 5, 2011
Republican Integrity
-August 27, 2011
The Pause Before the Next Battle
-August 16, 2011
Birenbaum on Obama
-August 12, 2011
Giving in to the Tea Party
-August 1, 2011
Birenbaum, Roberts and Zucker on "Obama Caves"
-July 29, 2011
Obama's Bartlet Moment
-July 28, 2011
Obama Caves
-July 26, 2011
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The Cultural Ticker
Ian W. Toll's "Pacific Crucible"
- February 3, 2012
Science and Art in America
- January 17, 2012
Three Non-Oscar Movies
- January 10, 2012
"Madmen", Then and Now
- December 27, 2011
Kahneman's Fallacies
- December 5, 2011
Global Warming Again
- November 29, 2011
Previous Cultural Tickers
Shylock and the Debt Crisis
-November 28, 2011
Consumer Choice
-October 23, 2011
Birenbaum on the 9-11 Memorial
-October 15, 2011
The Golden Rule Revisited
-September 29, 2011
Poussin's "Blind Orion"
-September 22, 2011
Andy Kaufman
-September 17, 2011
Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto"
-September 13, 2011
The Problem with Feelings
-August 30, 2011
The Wadsworth Atheneum
-August 25, 2011
Empiricism in "A Winter's Tale"
-August 14, 2011
Zucker on Thomas Mann
-August 8, 2011
Bio-Ethical Obfuscation
-August 7, 2011
Locker Rooms and the Women's Movement
-July 21, 2011
Hitler: A Reverie
-July 12, 2011
A Sociological Analysis of Moral Words
-July 11, 2011
July 4th on the Mall
-July 6, 2011
Mann's "Joseph and His Brothers"
-June 6, 2011
Movies Are Worse Than Ever
-April 6, 2011
The Legend of "True Grit"
-February 17, 2011
An Early Take on the 2011 Oscars
-February 13, 2011
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