These are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Two, 3:05am My Dearest Leigh, You cannot imagine my joy upon receiving your letter! I worked ceaselessly to fend off any and all of…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the first day of the 2014 Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day One, 12:40am My Dear Leigh, It has been far too long since I’ve written to you. For this transgression, I can only hope you can…
Read MoreMy good friend and colleague Charles McKinney and I are continuing our #GradingWarLetterstoHome correspondence this term. If you’re unfamiliar with the backstory of how this hilariously ridiculous endeavor got started, I refer you to the archive of last year’s correspondences here, which also explains the origin and style of these letters. To save you a click…
Read MoreIt’s been a busy (in fact, record-breakingly busy) month here on RMWMTMBM, so I wanted to take a momentary break from the Leiter/PGR/SeptemberStatement brouhaha–about which this blog has more or less unfortunately become something akin to professional Philosophy’s version of TMZ— and instead remark upon an initiative as important to our discipline as, and not wholly…
Read MoreJust a random”Philosophy pedagogy” insight today: I’m teaching three sections of a course entitled “Contemporary Moral Problems” at Christian Brothers University this term, which is more or less CBU’s version of “Intro to Ethics.” As I’ve done in all of my past Ethics courses, I spend the second day of class leading students through a…
Read MoreMany of you have probably seen the excellent “Ferguson Syllabus” created by Sociologists for Justice, which has been circulated widely over the last several days and which provides a collection of research articles used to inform the arguments and positions represented in their Statement on Ferguson. I strongly encourage you to keep circulating that document, and…
Read MoreThe blogosphere has been all abuzz with commentary on the merits and demerits of “trigger warnings” (henceforth, TWs) of late, which has sparked an interesting conversation not only about what sorts of norms we ought to strive for in the Academy but also how we can or ought police those norms. With regard to TWs…
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 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…
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