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Searching for insights into the challenges faced by educators today among new and classic works of philosophy, literature, politics, and history. A monthly newsletter designed to provoke thought for educators and learners.
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Marcus Aurelius and Reflective Repetition (opens the original)
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This month’s essay marks the start of a collaboration with my son, Jack Lang, a painter who recently graduated from Loyola University Chicago. Both because I want to showcase the work of a talented artist and I want to support human-created art in the AI era, each future essay will have one or two illustrations that I have commissioned from Jack. You can find Jack’s work in his online gallery and on Instagram.The semester started for many educators this week, and the early days of a college cour
The Catcher in the Rye and the Classroom Moment (opens the original)
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In the last few years I have started two book clubs, both of which have added a little direction and purpose to my leisure reading. One of those clubs began as a philosophy reading club with a half-dozen members, but coordinating the schedules of six or seven people for video discussions is definitely not one of my life skills, so it kind of petered out. But after a hiatus, I revived it in a smaller iteration, and now its two other members are former philosophy majors (like me) who also happen t
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