How the Hobbes Stole Christmas
Looking for a way to make Thomas Hobbes more to your students than life as “nasty, brutish, and short”? Today, I shared with my 4th-6th graders Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You’ve no doubt seen the Chuck Jones...
The Ballad of Detroit
In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jerod Diamond makes an interesting observation about peninsulas: the landform, much like an island, isolates a people. Peninsulas act as a force multiplier,...
A Paradigm: Six Words for the National Academy
You might remember a New York Times contest to craft a six word motto [http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/contest-a-six-word-motto-for-the-us/] for the United States. We...
National Academy 2008: Is it Over?
[http://www.oxy.edu/x6328.xml] The Rangeview building is nearly quiet this afternoon. It isn’t that the exchange students all went to the beach today but...
Constitutional Thinking Requires Constitutional Teaching
At the National Academy today, Kevin Fox presented his thoughts on his own constitutional thinking and teaching. In the Academy tradition, his inquiry started with, “What is it?...