I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused
Jason TebbeHistory, politics, culture
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The Crises of Belief and Authority Facing Educators
The school year is ending for me, always a time of reflection as I approach a well-earned rest after months of intense toil. This year has been one of double-consciousness. My teaching life inside the classroom was very happy. I feel like I...
Regulate the Tech Industry
There is little room for agreement across America’s political spectrum, but both Left and Right agree that we are in an era of decline. They may have different reasons and different metrics, but both sides think, on a gut level, that things...
Heaven's Gate and the Reagan Dawn
On my old blog I have talked for years about a cultural period in American life from 1979-1981 that I have dubbed “Reagan Dawn.” Reagan’s election to the presidency did not come from nowhere, it was both fueled by and a catalyst for a cultu...
The Strange Resonance of U2's The Joshua Tree
It’s the second term of an old, addled, scandal-plagued president who is embroiling the country in conflicts in the Middle East and Latin America while enacting a right wing agenda at home at a time when public virtue is being eradicated by...
The College Admissions Obsession Reflects Deeper Social Problems
[NOTE: this essay is NOT a comment on the college counselors at the schools where I’ve worked, who are, to a person, lovely and committed people that I appreciate for their collegiality and professionalism.]
This past month America’s high...
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