Did you see the We are One [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/jan/18/obama-inauguration-we-are-one?picture=341951467&morepage] celebration yesterday? It was a powerful combination of our best words, music, and ideas. From the MLK and JFK quotes you’d expect to Reagan quotes you wouldn’t.
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 animated version, but I’m going to visit
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, granting a space easier defense, so that a polity might survive invasion by a much more powerful culture. (Think: Hot Gates and
I saw the most frightening childrens’ movie this weekend, Pixar’s “Wall-E [http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/].” The child in the row behind me squealed with delight over every adorable character. She punctuated each screen debut with the character’s name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E#Cast]. She
Some many days ago, a good countryman you know by the name of Maximus asked a group assembled before him, “what would a Federalist school look like?” His question suffered a long period of silence as those in attendance considered what they knew of Federalism…. > Founded on fundamental rights… A