The Corporatization of Public Higher Education: The Case of Sonoma State University
The new Center for Ethics, Law, and Society at Sonoma State University in Northern California has caused quite a stir among our academic community during the first week of classes, as well as from those outside SSU. Its funding and the further corporatization of public higher education have been questioned. The notorious insurance monolith AIG More...
The Trickle up Effect
My father is an engineer. He’s also a Buddhist. He’s a kind, generous person, always ready to enjoy life with friends and family. So when a friend and former colleague from TI days asked him to join More...
Veterans Explore “Moral Injury”
Our Veterans Writing Group met the morning after Pearl Harbor Day for our regular winter gathering, as we have convened seasonally for twenty years. Two dozen of us came from throughout Northern California More...
Free Speech & Leadership at Sonoma State University: Practice What You Teach!
By Shepherd Bliss The creation of the Mario Savio Speakers’ Corner this semester was my favorite event during my five years at Sonoma State University. It was a good example of what is taught in SSU’s More...
Concealed Narratives
What do we really know? “Theories are concealed narratives…we should not be taken in by their claims to be valid for all time.” – Jean-François Lyotard Beliefs, theories, ideas: things we grab More...
Yes, by which I mean, yes
The supremacy of English as a universal language is undisputed and largely credited to its voracious nicking of the best bits of other languages. So it’s that much more curious that in 2012, roughly 100 years More...
Prop. 37 & What you can do now about GMOs
I’m so glad that California Prop. 37 (GMO labeling) has alerted more folks to the issue of the experimental GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) currently being put into our foods. This is an issue More...
On Banking, And Bully-Boy Tactics
I have been driven to such despair by HSBC over the past six months that, last week, I transferred my current account to a local building society. A loyal personal and business account customer of HSBC for More...
