This morning I watched a video off students in France rioting. About what? The core dispute seems to be the deterioration of education. In particular, they are objecting to increasing class sizes. I couldn't help remembering a day in 1957, when, sitting in a class of thirty, we listened to our teacher, dear Mr Waxman, … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | classroom size | will we ever learn?
Rescuing Fiction | the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fictional Characters | Herman Hesse vs the Steppenwolf
Among novelists, the phenomenon of the character who resists the author's intentions is well known. This is one of the best examples in fiction.
Rescuing Reality | The Tariff War | What’s going on?
........I sense many people silently asking themselves, "What's going on?"
Belly Full: Exploring Caribbean cuisine through 11 fundamental ingredients and over 100 recipes
My daughter Lesley's recipes inspire ..... on page after delicious page.
America | What now?
Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing Fiction | Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank | how it contains one of the greatest scenes ever written
The scene where Heidegger comes for a meeting with the commandant at Auschwitz ranks.....as one of the greatest conversation scenes in literature.
Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
Rescuing History and trying to rescue the Future | What Happened when the U.S. failed to prosecute an insurrectionist Ex-president
If Donald Trump gets re-elected, how long will it be before new versions of the Klan begin operations?
