Well, it’s happening: we’re one step further toward the new old west. Apparently, the Georgia legislature feels, almost unanimously, that we citizens need to be armed. The right to bear arms is not enough: we have a compulsion to bear arms. In a gun bill that passed yesterday, 43-10, our wise legislators decided that guns [...]
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Not a Business
In a meeting on campus the other day, someone said to me: “The college is a business.” I responded: “No, it’s not. There might be business done in the college, but it is an institution of higher education.” I know that many in this state — and perhaps around the country — are trying to [...]
Subject, Purpose, Audience
This presentation is the first in a series for English Composition 1. It is intended to introduce new college students to college-level writing. It was recorded live on August 27, 2007. It’s the first of several more to come.
Age of the Essay?
Paul Graham, in his essay “The Age of the Esssay,” provides a thorough, if somewhat simplistic and generalizing, view of the history of Western academia and the genesis of the essay that’s taught in school and what he calls a “real essay.” While many of Graham’s points are made eloquently and much of his insight [...]