The link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYqzcqDtL3k) is to an extraordinary documentary on Brexit. I learned a great deal watching it and highly recommend it. I certainly hope everyone who votes in England takes the time to watch it. The Brits will be voting for their future, but it will matter to us. This is a m...(Read more...)
Some speculate that Orwell read Anthem (published in England in 1938) before he wrote 1984; others, that both novels derive from Yevgeny Zamatyin's 1924 We. Here is an article about the parallels between Orwell and Zamatyin. Some of what the author notes (numbers for people instead of names; story in diary form) are re...(Read more...)
My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation.(Read more...)
After reports suggested that all terrorists involved in the recent attack at Dhaka restaurant, in which 20 people were killed, were highly educated and belonged to rich families, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen rubbished the arguments that poverty makes somebody a terrorist.(Read more...)
Having been born and raised in close proximity to so-called "white trash," I can absolutely relate to this article. North Carolina has been hit hard with many of the social and economic woes articulated here. I can see exactly why the Trump message resonates with my former peers.(Read more...)
