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And Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas highlight the ironic reality that rural teachers, parents, and leaders often participate in the demise of their own small places by “[investing in] the young people destined to leave and [ignoring] the ones most likely to stay or return.”
Stephen Witmer • A Big Gospel in Small Places: Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters
In his brilliant book Albion’s Seed, the historian David Hackett Fischer shows us the long continuities that mark the different streams of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture in the United States.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
penal reality of racist and classist oppression.41 In addition to radical arguments that reform was inherently paternalistic, voices from the center and the right attacked reform for the purely pragmatic reason that “nothing works” to rehabilitate criminals.42 For the first time in its two-hundred-year history, criminology began to lose faith in
... See moreJacob Abolafia • The Prison Before the Panopticon
Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Kurt Armstrong • Repair and Remain
This was not a problem specific to my school or my childhood—it’s a problem
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau said that one of most significant responsibilities of parents is to act as buffers between the child and society. If this was true in the eighteenth century, how much more is it true today?
