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The welfare state includes the military
I had a discussion with a doctoral student this afternoon about a directed-reading course for the fall, and I was explaining that the welfare state reached across different organizations and sectors. When financial advisors explained about the three-legged retirement support structure (Social Security, pensions, and private savings), they’re talking about welfare. When we say that […]
Online encyclopedias, but not wikis
Scott McLemee has joined Sage Storrs, Jeremy Boggs, Alun Salt, and Roy Rosenzweig in discussing both how to teach students how to read Wikipedia skeptically and also how to colonize Wikipedia and other open-source secondary materials. I will leave the teaching angle alone for the moment and head directly to the question of what we […]
What I did on my summer vacation
Well, this last week I did something unusual on a vacation. I went to prison… More in the extended entry…
Memorial Day and contingency
The uncle I never met, Leo Dorn, was the second child of Philip and Gertrude Dorn, about seven years younger than Murray and seven years older than Al (my father). As an adolescent, he never really got along with my grandfather, and he enlisted in WW2 in part as a way to get away from […]
Vicarous Johari/Nohari
The Johari window meme has been circulating among the blogs of personal friends and my academic blogroll, so I’m going to twist it a bit: Johari for historical figures! This is more a matter of comparing shallow impressions, but isn’t this what the internets are for? So let’s start with Lincoln, since there’s plenty of […]