Category: HBlog

Just say… wait?

The fact that articles like this don’t refer to Nancy Reagan as an activist is how well conservatives have fooled everyone into thinking that what they do isn’t radical or activism. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/rosalynn-carter-first-lady-politics.html

Shouts from the top of the Ivory Tower

Certainly, not all students wear these moral blinders. But the fact* that many students do, and that they are at some of the nation’s leading colleges and universities, should be a cause for profound concern across higher education. -Ezekiel J. Emanuel  “Hamas and the Moral Deficiencies of a Liberal Education – The New York Times“ *Where is that fact located, Professor? Could you cite your …

Don’t talk about tech and NOT credit authors

This short section of The Atlantic Daily has the following sentence: “The term metaverse was coined in a 1992 science-fiction novel titled Snow Crash. (The book also helped popularize the term avatar, to refer to digital selves.)” The book, not Neal Stephenson, the person who happened to author the book, but the book. If we want to talk about the future and technology and don’t …