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It’s a common mistake, often made by people who have some sort of romantic notion about the courts, and particularly the Supreme Court. Imagine a death row appeal, where the Supreme Court finds that the fellow about to be executed is entirely innocent...

Superfamous Clippings Marshall McLuhan, The Playboy Interview, 1969McLuhan’s observations — “probes,” he prefers to call them — are riddled with such flamboyantly undecipherable aphorisms as “The electric light is pure information” and “People don’t...

As teachers, we like to think of ourselves as very open-minded. We model this attitude and believe that open-minded teachers can raise open-minded students and when the mind is open, the possibilities are endless. Together with our students’ parents...

FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1977–1980, VOLUME XXX, recently published by the Office of the Historian at the U.S. State Department, history.state.gov 93. Message to the Congress1 Washington, October 11, 1977 Agency for International Communication Message to...

Tabula rasa. The moment you give birth, you start a chapter in your life that no amount of classroom lectures or past experiences will prepare you for.  The pages are all blank and you start from scratch, with only your instincts and love, gracing...