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A degrading money grab for classroom supplies in South Dakota
I’ve been meaning to write about a December spectacle in South Dakota, whereby public school teachers participated in a wild grab for 5,000 $1 bills in the middle of a hockey rink, before cheering...
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Want to teach at UCLA? You can! (For free, that is…)
At first, I thought it had to be a spoof, or perhaps the latest example of misinformation intentionally unleashed on social media. But it’s real. I’m talking about a job listing from the University of...
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Watch: “The Dignity of an Intellectual Life for All”
Dear readers, on October 21, I hosted a program titled “The Dignity of an Intellectual Life for All.” Focusing on Dr. Zena Hitz’s thought-provoking book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an...
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Thanksgiving Week: Writing and remembrance
Hello, dear readers, I’m enjoying my traditional U.S. Thanksgiving trip to New York City right now. The 12 years I lived in this city (1982-94) were a personally and professionally formative time for...
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A case for therapeutic jurisprudence in legal education and the legal profession
University of Miami Law Review, 2021 University of Baltimore Law Review, 2021 This semester, I had one of my most enjoyable teaching experiences ever at Suffolk University Law School, via a unique...
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Watch and learn: Video recordings of 2022 programs
Hello dear readers, I’m linking below video recordings of several programs in which I participated during 2022. I hope you’ll find something of interest! “Bullying and Incivility in the Academic...
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Free resource: “Political Science Internships: Towards Best Practices”
I wanted to re-share a resource that may be useful to those who are offering, arranging, and participating in internship programs in politics, public policy, international relations, and related...
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Ikigai: It’s not just for middle-aged searchers
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Ikigai, according to Wikipedia, “is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living.” It is most commonly...
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Expertise matters (but how one obtains it, much less so)
Posted to the Bring Evidence Facebook Page The cartoon pictured above shows an airline passenger claiming that “smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us,” therefore justifying his...
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Autobiographical reflections: Mark Satin’s “Up From Socialism”
At the start of my second year as an instructor in the Lawyering program at New York University School of Law in 1992, I looked at my new class list of first-year students and saw a familiar name:...
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