Great Reads: The Urge

In my Comp 2 classes, I have started letting my students select a reader and one of my classes picked a great one. (This originally evolved from an issue/worry with Florida’s Governor Ron Desantis’s new restrictions on classroom topics, but in the end, it…

Disinformation & Propaganda: The Issue that May Divide and Crumble the World

Maria Ressa, one of the most well known journalists from the Philippines, fighter for FACTS, and as a result, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, is sharing right now (Wednesday, April 6) about how fragile Democracy is right now. She is speaking as…

April Fool’s Day Rules

Pranks and jokes are fun. They can lead people to laughter and high emotions. But there can be a right way to create the best pranks. For those who may not be aware, April Fool’s Day every April 1st is a tradition where people…

One Professor Admits to Using Drugs and thinks Society Should Accept Some Drug Usage… (By the way, I’m not talking about me.)

man standing in front of people

Would you risk your career and respect to share something that might shift laws and public perceptions?

Social Media Fallacies

Want to be better? Want to be taken even more seriously? Want to take down your enemies, ahem, I mean refute your opposition politely? Then it may be worth paying more attention to flaws in logic or argument. In writing circles, we call these…

Race: Voices that Matter, like Halstead’s and Hutcherson’s

People often ask me where to get started to learn more about race and the situation with institutional racism in the United States. These two articles are almost always discussed in my college writing classes for a number of reasons, but not because they…

How to Respond to people Amidst a Crisis: POTOW & Let Dave Chappelle Show You

Get a message through the fire to the other side

Good Stories: Civility, even to the “Other”

In this political landscape where so many stories one could tell are traps for this side or that side, it’s refreshing to hear a positive story about politics. This week in Stafford, Virginia, a Muslim man who is running for congress got some hate…

Conversations: Mental Illness or Masculinity?

After yet another school shooting, this one in Parkland, FL at Stoneman Douglas High School. Things are happening after this, the 18th school shooting in the US so far this year (and it’s only February). Young high schoolers are asking for change and are…

The New Ms. Marvel Rocks My Socks

If you haven’t yet gotten into G. Willow Wilson’s new Ms. Marvel series, stop what you’re doing and order it. I first heard about this new Ms. Marvel storyline from a news article a few years ago that reported the new Ms. Marvel is…