In a lead piece posted on her liberal outlet, the Huffington Post of September 3, Arianna Huffington had this to say about public education: Health care is rightly dominating the national debate, but with children all across the country heading back to school, education, currently seated in the back row of the national classroom, is [...]
Archive for September 12, 2009
Didn’t she know that he had said this 50 years earlier? She should have.
September 12, 2009Victor Hugo’s, “Elle avait pris ce pli…”
September 12, 2009Our third grandchild, and first granddaughter, Soleil Valdes, was born on September 3rd. I fully hope and expect that within a very few years she also will be stepping lightly into the large open office space that Josée and I call our grande salle, and where we both work, and that her arrival will infect [...]
Barack Obama’s Tanner lecture
September 12, 2009Over 31 years ago, on July 1, 1978, Obert Clark Tanner gave what was to be the very first Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Now listed on the Tanner web site there are nearly 200 lectures, nearly all of which are available for download in Adobe Reader format. These lectures [...]
