by Dan Gordon | Mar 13, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Everywhere we turn today we see specialization. The most respected and well paid doctors and dentists are often those who perform just a few procedures. Many attorneys cover just one area of law. Even kids are specializing in how they play! With the spread of...
by Northampton Redoubt | Mar 13, 2008 | Northampton Redoubt
In Honor of International Women’s Month, Everywoman’s Center invites allinterested individuals and organizations to provide truth and testimonyregarding the status of women’s lives in Massachusetts!Public Hearing with the Massachusetts Commission on...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 13, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’m not sure that I quite want to recommend this essay on patriotism by political philosopher George Kateb. It’s a bit too theoretical for my tastes, and I’m actually moderately familiar with the theory. But if you’re a theory geek, go for it....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 13, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Okay okay, this will be my last post on this subject, I hope. In a book review of Robert Jensen’s "Getting Off" from Sex in the Public Square, a community of blogs which describes itself as "working to expand the space available for discussions of...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Mar 13, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I don’t think this New Yorker essay, by Michael Chabon, gets to the heart of what makes comic books so captivating to boys in quite the way it so obviously aspires to do, but it does have some wonderfully precise observation, particularly this little...