May 2012
20 posts
“The college classroom should be a place where students learn to speak with...”
– Andrew Delbanco on college classrooms as the “best rehearsal spaces we have for democracy” (via newshour)
mental_floss on tumblr: Who Said It: @JoseCanseco... →
mentalflossr:
Gertrude Stein is emblematic of a literary and artistic era, with the rhythmic cadence of her poetry underlining a naked self-expression.
Jose Canseco slugged 462 dingers and is now known on Twitter for his candid insight, bouts of oppressive confidence tempered by poignant disclosures of…
You know, sometimes it just feels like the Internet is giving me a big hug.
IsRonPaulStillRunning.tumblr.com →
Yup, this was basically the Prospect office an... →
“Well, I guess I’m cynical. I had a list of reasons as long as my arm for...”
– E.J. Graff, “I Am Gobsmacked”
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– The full quote. (via nprfreshair)
“It blossomed into a magazine that honors and invests in long-form journalism,...”
– E.J. Dionne, “The American Prospect, a little journal that looms large”
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April 2012
24 posts
“You see, Mitt Romney may not have pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, but...”
– Paul Waldman
More Americans believe in witchcraft than agree... →
think-progress:
Necessary context.
At least with witches, there’s the small hope that you’re dealing with the Glinda-type.
Stat of the Day: 53.6% of Young Graduates Don't... →
Happy Monday y’all.
Longreads: "My So-Called Ex-Gay Life." →
longreads:
What it was like for a teenager to go through “ex-gay” therapy—and how the movements associated with such practices have fallen apart:
After our initial meeting, I spoke with Nicolosi weekly by phone for more than three years, from the time I was 14 until I graduated high school. Like a rabbi…
“Javerbaum is just kidding around here, but while I am on board with the...”
– Paul Waldman, A Grand Unified Theory of Romney
March 2012
15 posts
Knight News Challenge: DifferentFeather →
newschallenge:
1. What do you propose to do?
Build an engaging tool that helps readers discover previously unexplored news items that their “opposite” (politically, demographically, geographically) reads instead of news stories endlessly aggregated across their own narrow social networks.
2. Is anyone doing…
