Technology and social media impact the professor's and the student's confidence in freely articulating unpopular positions; activist Jacobins, on the look-out for anything, intentional or not, to take offense at, impede dialectic for instructors and students. The role of at-will Adjunct Instructors also makes likely self-censored, overly timid and accommodating, teaching. Inevitably, these factors affect … Continue reading An Unhealthy Learning Environment

Surreal. Quiet before the storm. A vivid dream—a bad one. Is this really my country? Have I slipped into a parallel universe, one where most details are the same as in my world, except for much that actually matters? The same guitars hang on my bedroom wall, but friends are suicidal, hateful, blaming everyone but … Continue reading Surreal Times and Hope