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  • Category: Autobiographical
    • "Our working conditions are student's learning conditions" January 31st, 2012
    • Pots and Kettles January 4th, 2012
    • Less Than Zero November 16th, 2011
    • Debt Forgiveness October 26th, 2011
    • Not That Different October 3rd, 2011
    • It's the marketing, stupid! September 19th, 2011
    • Teachable Moments September 12th, 2011
    • The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly September 7th, 2011
    • Teaching Critical Thinking in an Irrational Age August 1st, 2011
    • The End of the Fact as We Know It July 27th, 2011
    • An Aging Luddite July 13th, 2011
    • Patriotism July 4th, 2011
    • The Rhetoric of the Big Lie February 21st, 2011
    • The New Teacher Proletariat February 16th, 2011
    • Pot, Meet Kettle February 14th, 2011
    • Reading Over Writing February 9th, 2011
    • The Future of Hyperbole January 19th, 2011
    • Simple Truisms December 1st, 2010
    • Silos November 29th, 2010
    • Pyrrhic Victory November 17th, 2010
    • The Tortoise Stirs October 27th, 2010
    • Learning Consumerism August 25th, 2010
    • Educated Denial August 11th, 2010
    • Schooling Proprietary Education August 4th, 2010
    • Reform or Revolution August 2nd, 2010
    • The Persistence of Idiocy June 21st, 2010
    • Goodbye Cynthia May 31st, 2010
    • Imperial Nostalgia May 12th, 2010
    • The Next Technological Fix March 31st, 2010
    • The Apollo Aliance and That Vision Thing August 10th, 2009 (2)
    • Ours and Mine April 10th, 2009
    • Wishful Thinking March 30th, 2009
    • Life and Tenure Among the Social Darwinians March 27th, 2009
    • Lou Reed and Jonh Cale: Work March 11th, 2009
    • Capitalism 101: Market Think March 9th, 2009
    • The Mystery of the Disappearing Student February 12th, 2009
    • It Sucks to be Poor, Part II January 5th, 2009
    • Patriot Post, Post Patriot November 10th, 2008
    • McCain, Palin, Education, Class October 24th, 2008
    • Sarah Palin's (Empty) Rhetorical Style October 6th, 2008
    • "What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" September 15th, 2008
    • The Real Class War Again: In Class August 29th, 2008
    • The Dream of (Canadian) Centralization August 11th, 2008
    • Think Again RPCVs: Robert L. Strauss Revisited July 18th, 2008
    • The Myth of Multitasking July 11th, 2008
    • Parity for Mass Transit July 7th, 2008 (1)
    • Class Writing June 20th, 2008
    • The Rise of the Machines May 30th, 2008
    • Think Again RPCVs: Robert L. Strauss May 19th, 2008 (3)
    • DefectiveByDesign.org May 16th, 2008 (1)
    • Education and Class May 2nd, 2008
    • Writing, Technology and Teens April 28th, 2008
    • 2007-08 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession April 25th, 2008 (1)
    • Being Christian April 21st, 2008
    • Top Intellectual Property Developments of 2007 for Scholars of Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication April 18th, 2008
    • The Law of Unintended Consequences April 14th, 2008
    • Abolition April 7th, 2008
    • The Normal Neurotic: Stiffs and Stuffeds April 4th, 2008
    • Deconstructing Organic March 28th, 2008
    • Beatnik Questionaire March 7th, 2008
    • The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot March 3rd, 2008
    • Monday, Monday February 25th, 2008
    • Obsolete Skills February 22nd, 2008
    • Still Disgusted February 18th, 2008
    • A Wilderness of Mirrors February 1st, 2008
    • Pviledge (Me)me January 11th, 2008 (1)
    • the itch January 9th, 2008
    • Iowa: Edwards Takes on Corporate Greed December 31st, 2007
    • a legacy of languages, poems, histories December 14th, 2007
    • Suburbia is a Cyborg December 3rd, 2007
    • Why We Fight November 9th, 2007
    • Roches: Hammond Song October 31st, 2007
    • Jena, Louisiana September 24th, 2007
    • Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom September 14th, 2007 (1)
    • The Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer August 20th, 2007
    • America's Best Colleges 2008 August 17th, 2007
    • Too Much: Greed at a Glance August 13th, 2007
    • Fast-Education June 15th, 2007
    • Earth 911 June 11th, 2007
    • 100th Post May 2nd, 2007
    • Take Back Your Time April 30th, 2007
    • Bubble Wrap April 16th, 2007
    • Safe2pee.org March 23rd, 2007 (1)
    • Someday Soon March 21st, 2007
    • WordIQ.com: A Dream of Dogs February 16th, 2007
    • P.J. Harvey and Nick Cave February 7th, 2007
    • Office of Public Humiliation: Division of the (Kinder and Gentler) Grammar Police January 10th, 2007
    • Ladys and Gentleman, the Butthole Surfers January 10th, 2007
    • Wal-Mart's Local Harvest January 8th, 2007 (1)
    • S.A.D., TV, and Me November 2nd, 2006
    • Local Saint October 16th, 2006
    • My Other Roommate Isn't Human Either September 21st, 2006
    • Bear September 19th, 2006
  • Category: Composition
    • Juxtaposition and Critical Thinking December 19th, 2011
    • Dumb Memes October 31st, 2011
    • The Hollow Men April 25th, 2011
    • How Not to Change March 23rd, 2011
    • Cents and Sensibility January 12th, 2011

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    The C.C.C.C webpage, A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies includes a short podcast interview with me along with links to these reviews:

    ... by Victor Villanueva in CCC 62.4 (June 2011)
    ... by Chanon Adsanatham in Teaching English in the Two-Year College 38.3 (March 2011)
    ... by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Education (17 Feb 2010)

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    • 'Change.edu' and the Problem With For-Profits - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012/02/01
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    • The Time is Now: Report from the New Faculty Majority Summit | Inside Higher Ed 2012/01/31
    • MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012/01/26
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