December 2009
27 posts
Why Humanist Critics of Foucault Should Take the...
I suppose at this point it is somewhat of an outmoded cliche to refer to the “culture war” but I continue to encounter people, particularly in academia or the public media discourse who are utterly convinced that anyone who holds “postmodernist” viewpoints has dispensed with any notion of truth altogether and is busy pointlessly fomenting ineffectual and massively violent...
Brilliant speech by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on... →
Shout out to Lifeskills Academy in the Detroit... →
Godfather of Sperm: Creepily Eugenic Altruist? →
A Troubling Paradox in How Americans Value the... →
Demolition Show (Pyongyang) →
Joe Lieberman: An Ambiguously Leperous Muppet... →
Constructions of Ethics and Ethical Challenges in... →
If only this were a real profession...sigh →
Facing Financial Collapse, Banks Unproblematically... →
Facing Financial Collapse, Banks Unproblematically... →
The Micropolitical Response to Phantasmatic... →
Detroit Urban Debate Education gets a shout-out... →
OPINION: Why Obama should call for national... →
A Speech Written for Barack Obama to Announce a...
by Edmund Zagorin
“My brothers, what use is it for a man to say he has faith when he does nothing to show it? Can that faith save him? Suppose a brother or a sister is in rags with not enough food for the day, and one of you says, ‘Good luck to you, keep yourselves warm, and have plenty to eat’, but does nothing to supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So with...
Osmosissing Our Way Futureward
This idea is fantastically simple. It’s so simple I couldn’t possibly understand it. As far as the BLDGBLOG reported, something about the mixing of fresh water and salt water, as occurs in the Norwegian fjords, can be used to generate electricity. Lots of electricity. The company who is implementing this scheme claims that if fully exploited worldwide, this scheme could profitably...
Best Onion Headline of the Year →