Month: July 2020

by wj The most optimistic estimates suggest that we might have a covid-19 vaccine that works by the end of the year. Let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that actually happens. Then what? Well the obvious first step is to get production ramped up to produce enough doses to handle the whole country. (Well, … Read more

by liberal japonicus I’m not going to dig thru comments to find out who discussed Applebaum and what folks said, and I can’t remember when I have cited her, but I will say, knowing all this about her make me wonder how I would reconsider things. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/12/anne-applebaum-how-my-old-friends-paved-the-way-for-trump-and-brexit

by liberal japonicus Sapient passed on this link https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/policy-issues/abuse-and-neglect/abuse-in-homeschooling-environments/ and I thought I’d toss up a post to let y’all chat. A warning: I think the landscape for homeschooling is a lot more varied than anyone thinks it is, so be careful with blanket assertions about what is good/bad or wrong/right. I’d especially be interested … Read more

by liberal japonicus I really enjoyed this article about Max Weber, who wrote the The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. At university, one of my favorite teachers in one of my favorite classes (a class about modernity and the 20th century) assigned selections from this and I was quite taken with Weber’s idea … Read more

–By Sebastian H 30 years ago my mother was in a car accident.  She was stopped in the left hand turn lane of a major intersection.  Someone blew through the light, T-boned another car, which spun around the intersection so violently it was able to hit my mother's van on three different sides.  She got … Read more