Dr. Doolittle can talk with all the animals. I can only talk with my dog. Still, I can testify - because she’s assured me of this - that she doesn’t think of me as belonging to a different species. She thinks of me, and of my wife, and of our two cats, as belonging to … Continue reading INTER-GENERATIONAL JUSTICE
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INDIGENOUS STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued that a university can task itself to seeking the truth, or to promoting social justice, but not both. Why? Because the truth is sometimes incompatible with the promotion of social justice. A university that tries to have it both ways is going to fail at both, and as … Continue reading INDIGENOUS STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE
SLAVERY
Because I’m now two-thirds of a century old I’m allowed to be a curmudgeon. I don’t say things like, “Why can’t they mow their lawn?!”, but I do ask, “Why can’t my students write in proper English sentences?!” But what I want to curmudge about today is talking heads who don’t think that words matter. … Continue reading SLAVERY
