greteman

Knowledge is ubiquitous. We can find it everywhere. We can carry mini-computers in our pockets that allow us, at any moment, to “google” a q...

I want to begin thinking about the insights Henry David Thoreau provided in “ Civil Disobedience ” and what his thoughts provide in thinkin...

Democracy, in the sense of the power of the people, the power of those who have no special entitlement to exercise power, is the ver...

I have been asked by a number of people about my thoughts on Jodie Foster’s speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award. While I am not sur...

Endings are always a time to look back. At the end of one’s life, one looks back on the life lived while those around one’s self do the same...

A History of a Course And so we come to our final moments together as a class. Over the past 15ish weeks we have covered a rather large ...

The Time of Social Theory It seems apropos to begin the end of a class with Madonna. In her fabulous portrayal of Eva Peron in Evita she ...