It’s really simple: people who gravitate to the right are authoritarians. Cultural relativity undermines that. Cultural relativity states that all societies face the same basic (Continue Reading)
It’s really simple: people who gravitate to the right are authoritarians. Cultural relativity undermines that. Cultural relativity states that all societies face the same basic (Continue Reading)
So easy to ridicule liberals …. or Liberals. They are now taking to saying “Latinx” instead of Latin, Latino, or Latina. Seems silly, right? Just (Continue Reading)
There is a lot here I agree with: (it’s from The Bulwark) 1. Trump Would Destroy Bernie If the polls are to be believed, Bernie (Continue Reading)
In the wake of the Civil Rights Act passing, some people took it seriously. Here is an example of what happened (from Rick Perlstein’s Before (Continue Reading)
From a FL teacher listserv: > I am doing a March Madness activity with my HS students and I already > have > 10 songs (Continue Reading)
Reading an article in the New York Review of Books, I discovered that the colonists before the revolution in this country had a take on (Continue Reading)
Our first lesson after her trip to France. She continues to delight me with her observations and questions. We did a little planning, basically our (Continue Reading)
I no longer feel obligated to listen to or speak to anyone with their cell phone out. If they have an important message, they can (Continue Reading)
At the end of the month, my granddaughter will begin putting in more than the 5 day a week schedule for her French lessons. She (Continue Reading)
Since my surgery in December and my week off in Februrary, I have surged in the consistency with which I get to the gym. I (Continue Reading)
Trump has created another crisis that he is milking to gin up his base. By sending troops to the border in violation of the Constitution (Continue Reading)
I just finished Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. He says all conservatives are reactionaries b/c they don’t arise until something changes. People who just live (Continue Reading)
Comment c’est que vous arrivez ici a douze heures quand vous suivez six cours? (I showed 12 with fingures and translated hours) Because I take (Continue Reading)
Mark Lilla encounters my wife We went to hear Mark Lilla tell us Liberals how our widening up of the Democratic Party by taking up (Continue Reading)
Frank Schaeffer, recovering evangelist (still evangelical, just not spreading hate and poison like the current movement), pointed out on A.M. Joy yesterday that Trump’s followers (Continue Reading)
From Foreign Affairs magazine, May-June 2018, Malaysian Prime Minister speaking in 1992 said, “Authoritarian stability has enabled prosperity whereas democracy has brought chaos and increased (Continue Reading)
If I am speaking English as a second language or foreign language and I say, “My car breaked down, can you help me,” no English (Continue Reading)
When Trump supporters declare, “Finally, someone with balls!” what do they mean? This is closely tied to the Right’s notion of political correctness. They mean (Continue Reading)
Last year a friend related to me how people in an activist group he’s in wanted to deal with hate. Big order. Hate comes from (Continue Reading)
I was just watching for the second time the interview of Chris Hayes by Heather McGee of Demos regarding his book A Colony in a (Continue Reading)
A big point in selling fl classes to students and their parents is the way culture ties into language and vice versa. However, detailed examples (Continue Reading)
No one likes to be type cast, to lumped in with everyone else. Any time you paint a whole people with a broad brush you (Continue Reading)
When prominent conservatives get accused of bad behavior like sexual harassment, the reporters and witnesses as well as the accusers are labeled liars by conservatives, (Continue Reading)