The Radical Moderate vs. The Moderate Radical

I am a moderate. Moderation is my blessing and my curse.

I think and teach and question Socratically. I remove my thoughts from the conversation and interrogate those who claim to know the truth. Fat lot of good it did…

Trumpism, the Empire, and the Managerial Revolution

This is still the post I intended to write, although the lede has to change. Time moves too fast now. My pithy intro was superseded by actual events.

Holding Hands at the Edge

Bianca has a tumor. Many female rats develop these mammary tumors. They are benign but fast-growing, to the point that the animal can no longer function — can’t eat, walk, or bathe herself effectively. This is not yet the case for Bianca, who continues to bounce happily across the bed to greet me…

Humility

Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t…

Filters

This keyboard is a toy. Technically, it’s obsolete “Ed Tech.” It was made for children who needed to type in school, who weren’t to be trusted…

What is “Unnamed Group Blog”?

This blog starts from the position that life shifted dramatically the night that Donald Trump was elected president. Many of us now live in fear for the first time in our lives. (We realize, also, how incredibly fortunate we are to be able to write that sentence given so many…