Once again this semester, I assigned short-film projects to the students in my Existentialism course. And once again, the products of that assignment (which I only just finished grading) were amazing. I’ve employed this assignment in select courses for the last several years and each year the students’ films have gotten more and more impressive. …
Read MoreThese are the letters from the sixth day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. 10 December 2013, 11:45pm Dearest Charles, Today, we persevered. Your friend,Leigh M. Johnson Click here to proceed to DAY SEVEN of the Grading War Letters
Read MoreThese are the letters from the fifth day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. 9 December 2013, 10:55am Dearest Charles, I received your note and hope you do not mind that I shared it aloud with the boys at breakfast…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the fourth day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. 8 December 2013, 11:35pm My Dearest Leigh, It is my sincere hope that these few words find you well. I have had no time to write,…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the third day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. 7 December 2013, 11:20am Dearest Marcus, Oh Happy Day! This morn found my heart both gladdened and relieved after procuring news that Providence continues to shelter…
Read MorePreliminary note: If you’re here because you’re checking back for updates on the Grading War archive, rest assured that new letters are still being added as they appear. However, this was getting a bit on the long side for a single post, so I’m breaking up the letters by day now. Click the following links…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the second day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. 6 December 2013, 10:05amDearest Marcus, I take up my pen this morning to inform you once more of my disconsolate station. Please pardon the poor condition…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the first day of the Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. 5 December 2013, 3:29pm Dearest Marcus, The battle here rages on unabated, only intensifying my longing for Deliverance, for the warmth and Safety of your hearth…
Read MoreLet me be clear at the outset: when I say that tolerance is not a virtue, I’m saying that as a philosopher for whom virtue has a conceptually substantive meaning. I do not mean to imply that tolerance is a vice, a claim to which I think no reasonable moral agent, and no philosopher worth…
Read MoreRebecca Tuhus-Dubrow published a piece a few days ago in the NYT entitled “The Repurposed Ph.D.,” which served as my first introduction to the neologism “post-academic.” The abbreviated (and eminently hashtaggable) version of that term– “PostAc”– is something like the poorer, sadder and less pretty twin of “AltAc” (“alternative academic”), which has for the last…
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