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  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #94

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #94

    The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnamable impulses, ye they keep up a pretence, to themselves,…

  • The Passive Activist, an introduction

    The Passive Activist, an introduction

    We Americans are living with an unprecedented absence of leadership. In the Deep South, we have lived with this void for most of our history,…

  • Is recycling a waste of time?

    Is recycling a waste of time?

    In early October, The New York Times’ Sunday Review section ran a piece called “The Reign of Recycling,” in which John Tierney asks all of…

  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #93

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #93

    Education depends fundamentally on our ability to generate optimism and find reasonable (defensible) ways to sustain it. When our faith in the future is shaken,…