An eager reader sent me question via the contact form: Is silence really complicity? My correspondent sought a response by email, but when I tried…
Posts tagged as “philosophy”
A quick breakfast complaint: The people we hear threatening government workers and badmouthing government in general are often the same people shouting Support the Troops! and flying…
Vermillion Plain Talk editor David Lias offers the best account I’ve read of the best statement I’ve heard in support of sensible public health interventions…
Out on the otherwise deserted Yellowstone Avenue, Donnie Santee told me he drove out from Iowa thinking the park would be reopened by now. SANTEE:…
Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sounds a lot like some South Dakota Republicans in his disdain for higher education. He’s threatening to yank state support…
Rolling Stone reminds us that one of Donald Trump’s extremist nominees for the Federal Reserve doesn’t think democracy is nearly as important as his opportunity to…
In this week’s random reading, I happened upon a 1976 article from The Radical Teacher that tangentially offers an explanation for why Koch/Trump Republicans view a…
The Displaced Plainsman gleefully (I enjoy picturing the Plainsman gleeful) comments on new USD president Sheila Gestring’s welcome defense of liberal arts education as a…
You’ve climbed the mountain; now read the book! The Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre is hosting a discussion of Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt’s record of…