Making lemonade from the lemons we were dealt by Trump's election
MEET BAGHDAD BARBIE Chuck Todd got into a lengthy and heated back-and-forth on Meet the Press this morning with Kellyanne Conway over both President Trump and Sean Spicer making crowd sizes an issue yesterday. Chuck […]
We listened to an angry, divisive, classless, inauguration speech yesterday. Let’s remember what a classy president was like and take comfort in his parting message to us.
Here is a sample Trump tweet in which he called CNN a loser. Sep 17, 2016 9:13:43 AM .@CNN just doesn’t get it, and that’s why their ratings are so low – and getting worse. […]
How can we understand why so many people voted for Trump? I have started to collect resources to help us try to find some answers. I believe that this information should be considered if/when Democrats […]
We’ve already discussed the damage that fake news can cause and efforts to teach students skills that can help them discern the likelihood that a story is really fake news. We also shared information about […]
How should we “read” Trump? We read books. Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren wrote a book to teach us “How To Read A Book“. Cinema scholars and critics read films. Roger Ebert […]
After losing the 2012 Presidential Election, Republicans conducted an Autopsy. The Democrats went into the 2016 election fully expecting to win and win big. That’s not what happened. Now it’s time for the Democrats to […]
Why would people support candidates who advocated policies that were detrimental to the interests of these voters? Arlie Russell Hochschild, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley developed a particular interest in why people […]
It was a story of unfairness and anxiety, stagnation and slippage—a story in which shame was the companion to need. I interviewed 60 people in all—over the next five years I did a lot of […]
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, after all of those interviews in that time span, you decided on the title Strangers in Their Own Land. Why? ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD: Yes. Well, here’s the thing. I decided on that […]