(7:15 pm March 24 2014 version) The new menu -- Obama Blogs -- explain key concepts from Out of Many, One: Obama & the Third American Political Tradition. It is designed as an Open Education Resource, and I'm hyperlinking URLs; Obama’s Belief in Universal Anti-Universalism Obama’s Ideology of Inclusivity Obama’s Ideology of Freedom & [...]
As higher education becomes the next healthcare, administrators and faculty alike scramble to explain why live-body teaching counts, and that tenure is important for teachers from K-12 or universities. That said, this does not mean anyone in academia should ignore the student-loan debt crisis that everyone should face. A alarming piece of news is that [...]
When the bold Left and the crazy Right converge, one should pay attention. Now Representative Darrell Issa and some Democrats agree the NSA and PRISM should be opened to public scrutiny. Edward J. Snowden should (and could is my guess) get amnesty. Why not? As public trust fades (though not forever), Obama should stop the information bleed not by punishing the information bean-spiller, the whistleblower, but by pulling him in. Indeed, the Obama administration just released a 308 page report on NSA's excesses.
Now that Germany is getting in line with the European parliament, trying to fight and backing their new champion — Edward J. Snowden, President Barack Obama’s favorite anti-American hero or alleged outlaw — leftie filmmaker Michael Moore won’t have to hold hands with right-wing crazy Glenn Beck any longer. The chorus against the United States’ surveillance state at home and abroad keeps getting louder.
FINALLY, the Obama National Security Agency (NSA) gives us, the public, pages and pages (hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents) about its surveillance state. To be sure, its a surveillance state built on top of the George W. Bush surveillance's state.
The Nobel Peace Prize–winning organization Doctors without Borders' spokesperson -- Dr. Judit Rius Sanjuan, the access manager for the United States -- proclaimed dismay about something that many insiders had feared. That is, the Obama administration -- in negotiations with 11 nations -- is pursuing terms that will make medicine less affordable (less accessible via the Internet).
Problems need solutions. Public policies are no different. Framing shows us how to find those solutions. Diagnosis/prognosis – what is the public-policy problem? Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier give great insight about framing gender in the EU.*
I’ve got lots of hands now. And by that I mean that on the one hand, my book Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition, published by the press of the university that Obama relates to the most -- University of Chicago -- a great university that also contains a great K-12 lab school*, shows how Barack Obama’s first campaign and his first administration fascinated me.
Fifth Annual Conference on Public Intellectuals Harvard University, April 11-12, 2014 CFP Deadline: December 1, 2013 Call for Papers: "Public Intellectuals and Power: In and Out of Academe" Since the 1950s, writers and thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Thomas Bender, Noam Chomsky, Kenneth Clark, bell hooks, Irving Howe, Russell Jacoby, Toni Morrison, Richard Posner, Ayn [...]
A book on my Amazon reserve wish list is Seymour Hersh’s next book on national security, civil liberties, and “fixing journalism.” I'm reading My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War (Witness to History) by Professor William Allison first. The Guardian blog summed up Hersh's continual critique in a word: Journalists, whether writing for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times, let alone for Fox News, have to be “outsiders.”
Obama wants federal judges to dismiss the lawsuit against the administration. That is, the Obama administration “urges” these judges to let the Pentagon and the FBI skip being under scrutiny so the federal government can protect itself from General David Petraeeus’ former lover? It was Jill Kelley, who spilled the beans, or leaked the affair, or was it? (We won’t know “the truth” until it comes out IN federal court.) But in any case, Jill, didn’t have her privacy invaded enough to warrant a lawsuit against the federal government, governed by Obama?
Obama's Consistent Shared Burden Foreign Policy Theme - "even when America’s core interests are not directly threatened, we stand ready to do our part to prevent mass atrocities and protect basic human rights. But we cannot and should not bear that burden alone."
