by John Hill | Sep 13, 2007 | The Public Humanist
I recently heard from an alumnus who was being sent back to Iraq for his second tour of duty there. This news elicited all sorts of emotions, sadness and anger in particular. The sadness stems from concerns about the fundamental wrongheadedness of unilateral US...
by Mark R. | Sep 13, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
At what point do you just throw up your hands, cover your critical thinking in bacon grease and throw it to the dogs? Democracy was a pretty good idea, but in the end, I guess we just couldn’t take the responsibility.Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 13, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
[I was going back through some of my unpublished work today and came across this essay, written a few years ago, about my time as a high school wrestler. In the spirit of letting no halfway decent writing go to waste, I’d thought I’d share it with you....
by Alan Bisbort | Sep 13, 2007 | News
For a century that began with such promise—with widespread talk of "bridges" and "a new millennium"—things sure deteriorated in a hurry, didn't they?In 1999 the U.S. was prosperous, not involved, at least not neck-deep, in foreign...