Christopher Long

Living The Long Road

Herb Garden

On this Father's Day, I felt compelled to see a project to completion. Much of my academic life involves projects that take a long time to complete. Last week I spent an entire day trying to…

Christopher LongJune 21, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

Force is Not Power

Today saddens me. Although it is not clear what the ultimate outcome of the events that have unfolded in Iran over the last week will be, still, today's violent response by the Iranian government to…

Christopher LongJune 20, 2009

Digital Dialogue Podcast

Digital Dialogue Podcast 01: Opening Dialogue

To begin the dialogue, I thought it appropriate to post the first in a series of Digital Dialogue podcasts designed to generate discussion around questions concerning but not limited to the nature of digital dialogue,…

Christopher LongJune 18, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

One Person = One Broadcaster

Over the past few days, I have been powerfully moved by the voices from Iranians struggling to be heard that have been delivered to me through Twitter as I monitored the feed from #iranelection. In…

Christopher LongJune 15, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

Following Events in Iran

As mentioned early this week, I have been anticipating the election in Iran to see the extent to which the new possibilities for peace emerge as the structure of global politics shifts in the face…

Christopher LongJune 13, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

Profiting from Health Care

I admire the White House's strategy to press forward on substantive health care reform now and I hope Washington is able to resist the temptation to water down the public option in such a way…

Christopher LongJune 11, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

The Ethics of Drilling

I have been asked to continue to blog for WPSU on local politics, so periodically I will be draw your attention here to my posts there.My latest post concerns the manner in which policy decisions…

Christopher LongJune 10, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

The Shifting Ground

Today is the anniversary of the death of Mohammed in 632 CE. The schism that opened in the Muslim world after his death continues to play out in the contemporary political tensions between Sunni Muslims…

Christopher LongJune 8, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

The Cairo Speech

Something more than "mere words" is at stake when the President of the United States, Barack Obama, goes to Cairo, Egypt and makes a speech offering a new beginning to the relationship between the United…

Christopher LongJune 5, 2009

Living The Long Road

Leaving the Beach on a Sunny Day

STONE HARBOR, NJ Last night's violent storms have given way to one of those crisp, clean, beautiful days at the New Jersey shore. Now, however, it is time to sweep the house, pack the swimming…

Christopher LongMay 30, 2009

Living The Long Road

On Turning 40

STONE HARBOR, NJ Today is my 40th birthday: I feel the curvature of the arc of my life, the contour of its trajectory. As it begins, I hope, to press toward its apogee and ultimate…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2009

Living LwCH The Long Road

Just Dancing

Here is episode 13 of Life with Chloe and Hannah. I have collected the video I took a few months ago at the Tussey Ski Area when they are dancing on the deck. I admire…

Christopher LongMay 20, 2009

Technology The Long Road

Stumbling Upon New Sites

Although I fancy myself someone who takes advantage of the web, I must admit that I find myself repeatedly going to the same sites all the time: the New York Times, Slate.com, the Centre Daily…

Christopher LongMay 18, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

2009 Pennsylvania Primary

In less than a week, we will be going to the polls again here in Pennsylvania. Although this primary lacks the national interest of last year's Presidential primary, it remains nevertheless important to local politics.…

Christopher LongMay 13, 2009

Living The Long Road

Happiness is Love

The title of this post comes from George Vaillant, the director of one of the longest running longitudinal studies of physical and mental well-being that has ever been undertaken. My attention was drawn to him…

Christopher LongMay 12, 2009

Academic Technology The Long Road

Narrative on the Social Web

Yesterday Alan Levine, aka cogdog, gave a presentation on 50+ Ways to Tell a Story using Web 2.0 technologies. The presentation was excellent as it introduced us to a variety of tools available online for…

Christopher LongMay 6, 2009

Living The Long Road

Fragility and Resilience

In that moment of silence before the crying starts, when your heart stops, you can only hope it is not too bad, not that bad.Today on the "tickle bed" Hannah fell into the headboard and…

Christopher LongApril 20, 2009

Education Technology The Long Road

Grassroots Video

Over the last few months, I participated on an Educational Technology Services "hot team" that focused on researching the educational significance of grassroots video. If you don't know what grassroots video is, check out our…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2009

Living The Long Road

A New Phase

As I grow older, I realize more and more that a life is made up of lives, that an individual life involves phases linked yet distinct. With the approach of my 40th birthday in May,…

Christopher LongApril 2, 2009

Grants, Fellowships, Awards Vita

ETS Summer Faculty Fellowship

I am very excited to have been awarded a 2009 Education Technology Services Summer Faculty Fellowship. The project I will be working on this summer, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, is designed to explore the…

Christopher LongApril 1, 2009

Civic Life Living The Long Road

Cultivating New Ecological Habits

After listening to this week's New Yorker comment podcast entitled "Economy vs. Environment" by David Owen, I was struck by three things. First, economic prosperity is dirty. Owens says that "the principle source of man-made…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2009

Living The Long Road

Brave Hellos Turning All Goodbye

Today is John Updike's birthday. Today a friend presented me with a little gift of one of Updike's poems. It reminded me again how important now is. I knew that, of course, but one must…

Christopher LongMarch 18, 2009

Academic Civic Life Living The Long Road

Magnanimity

I have just finished listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Lincoln Presidency, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Although the book takes a largely uncritical view of Lincoln's political wisdom,…

Christopher LongMarch 2, 2009

Academic Education The Long Road

Our Document

I am beginning to notice something about my course blog for PHIL298H: Patriarchal Force and Political Power. As we discuss the material we have been reading for class and engage with one another online through…

Christopher LongFebruary 5, 2009

Academic Education The Long Road

Teaching with Blogs

For those of you who have noticed a lack of postings here recently, this is largely because I am doing a lot of blogging with my honors class over at the course blog for an…

Christopher LongFebruary 3, 2009

Civic Life Living The Long Road

Two Little Moments

I just wanted to pause to note two small moments that occurred as we watched the inauguration unfold on TV as a family on Tuesday.As Val and I were focused on the inauguration, Hannah was…

Christopher LongJanuary 23, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

The Power of Words

This day stands as a rebuke to all who doubt the power of words. And on this defining day, I was struck again by the power of words spoken to inspire, transform, evoke, and celebrate. …

Christopher LongJanuary 20, 2009

Academic Civic Life The Long Road

Making this Moment Possible

I woke, this much anticipated morning, to the news of the death of a colleague. Professor Paul Lyons taught history, social work and holocaust studies for 29 years at the Richard Stockton College of New…

Christopher LongJanuary 20, 2009

Civic Life The Long Road

The Steep Climb

In a short but powerful speech from the Lincoln Memorial, Barack Obama stood where King had stood and offered a powerful rejoinder to some of those most powerful words King spoke 46 years ago. Where…

Christopher LongJanuary 18, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Blogs and Assessment

This post is designed to facilitate a round table discussion of using blogs for assessment at the 2009 Penn State Assessment Conference: Putting Your Assessment Plan to Work. Over the past four years, I have…

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2009

Living The Long Road

Chloe at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Just before the new year, we took Chloe and Hannah to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Chloe, who is obsessed with everything that has to do with art, was beside herself with excitement. Once I…

Christopher LongJanuary 2, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Metaphysics of Truth

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Today I presented a paper entitled The Metaphysics of Truth at the annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America at the American Philosophical Association's 2008 Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia, PA.The…

Christopher LongDecember 30, 2008

Living The Long Road

Christmas without Batteries

This year we had a Christmas without batteries and it was excellent. Santa, aka Val, asked for and bought nothing for the girls that required a battery of any kind. Most of what the girls…

Christopher LongDecember 25, 2008

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

The Duplicity of Beginning

This essay is an immanent critique of the story Reiner Schürmann tells concerning the origins of metaphysics as an epoch of hegemonic principles. In both Heidegger on Being and Acting and Broken Hegemonies, Schürmann identifies…

Christopher LongDecember 25, 2008

Civic Life Living The Long Road

Mortgage Relief

For those of us who own houses and who are working hard to keep up with our mortgage payments, it has been difficult to hear about multi-billion dollar bailouts of Wall Street banks and financial…

Christopher LongDecember 6, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Saying of Things

NEW YORK CITY - Today I returned to the New School to present what will be the first chapter of my forthcoming book, The Saying of Things: The Truth of Nature and the Nature of…

Christopher LongDecember 4, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Ethics of Truth

HARTFORD, CT -- Today I gave a paper here at Trinity College on the nature of truth in Aristotle entitled, "The Ethics of Truth: Saying It Like It Is". The presentation sought in part to…

Christopher LongNovember 17, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Critical Optimism

My friend and colleague from the New School, Emma Bianchi, forwarded me an essay written by Judith Butler entitled "Uncritical Exuberance?" that cautions us against too enthusiastically identifying with the election of Barack Obama. Butler…

Christopher LongNovember 15, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Summoning a New Spirit

It is difficult to put into words the feelings of the last few days, the sense of genuine pride, of relief, of hope, of new possibility; the sense of gravity for the seriousness of the…

Christopher LongNovember 6, 2008

Civic Life Living The Long Road

President Obama!

The first word Hannah could read herself, or at least recognize, was 'Obama'. She has been involved with the Obama campaign for at least 30% of her three year old life, and now she and…

Christopher LongNovember 4, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Newsday Blog

My brother-in-law is the editor of the sports section of New York Newsday. He asked for feedback from those of us living in battleground states. I sent them a picture and a short report, which…

Christopher LongNovember 4, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

E-day State College, PA

When I arrived at the 31st precinct (State College West - 1) at 6:45am to begin working as a poll watcher for the Obama campaign, they had already been lined up for a half an…

Christopher LongNovember 4, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

GOTV PA Day Two

Today the girls and I went out for another day of knocking on doors to get out the vote for Obama. This time, however, we were paired with Larry, a doctoral candidate in the School…

Christopher LongNovember 2, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

GOTV PA Day One

Here in State College, things are progressing very well with the Get Out the Vote (GOTV) efforts for Barack Obama. Chloe, Hannah, Nanny Janny, Val and I went to the Obama office in State College…

Christopher LongNovember 1, 2008

Living The Long Road

World Champions 2008!

Philadelphia has waited 28 years and 46 hours for this moment when Brad Lidge struck out Cliff Floyd to win the 2008 World Series. One of the most memorable moments of my childhood was watching…

Christopher LongOctober 29, 2008

Living The Long Road

Perfect Sports Weekend

This has been a perfect sports weekend from my perspective. Over the last 36 hours, we have seen the Phillies win not one, but two World Series games, the Eagles beat the Falcons and, of…

Christopher LongOctober 26, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

A Last Hail Mary Pass?

Over the last few days I have received four phone calls from the McCain campaign and one mailer from the Republican national committee. Of the four phone calls, two have been robo calls, one was…

Christopher LongOctober 26, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Redemption for Powell?

While many of us have found it difficult to forgive Colin Powell for the decisive role he played in lending credibility to the lies that led us into Iraq, his endorsement of Obama today on…

Christopher LongOctober 19, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Between Natality and Mortality

PITTSBURGH, PA - A panel on the work of Reiner Schürmann entitled "Philosophy-to-come: Reading Reiner Schürmann" was held today at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy. The panel included…

Christopher LongOctober 18, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

"That One"?

Last night's presidential debate was, on the whole, quite substantive, offering the public a good sense of the fundamental differences between McCain and Obama on issues ranging from health care to foreign policy. However, the…

Christopher LongOctober 8, 2008

C and H holding an Obama-Biden campaign sign

Civic Life The Long Road

The Front Porch

The girls and I went out canvassing for Obama again on Saturday and I learned something: the front porch is where the world can be changed. OK, that sounds perhaps a bit grandiose, but I…

Christopher LongOctober 5, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Register to Vote Now

This is a simple call for anyone who comes across this blog and agrees with what they find here to please register to vote.The Pennsylvania deadline is Monday, October 6th.I have added the voter registration…

Christopher LongOctober 3, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

The Death of Reaganism and the Future of America

The last vestiges of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which was passed during the first year of the Franklin Roosevelt administration in an attempt to regulate the banking industry in the face of the Great…

Christopher LongOctober 2, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

The Issues

In a striking comment earlier this month, Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, insisted: "This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."…

Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Boots on the Ground in PA

Today my friend and neighbor, Dan Letwin, and I went out canvassing for Barack Obama with our kids. It was a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon; a perfect day to change the world.We brought our four…

Christopher LongSeptember 21, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

President 2.0

If Barack Obama wins in November, it will surely be historic, but not only because he would be the first African American president. He would also be the first President elected based on an organizing…

Christopher LongSeptember 18, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Learning from the Lies

Over the past eight years, the Republican party and its leaders have perfected a strategy of political dishonesty and deception.In 2000, having lost badly to McCain in the New Hampshire primary, George W. Bush, decided…

Christopher LongSeptember 13, 2008

Living The Long Road

Long Time

I have now posted episode 9 of Life with Chloe and Hannah, entitled "Long Time." It chronicles our time with my brother, Jon, and his family, Hilary, Hoshaiah, Lucia and Natasha as they visited us…

Christopher LongSeptember 4, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Climate Change and the 5th Congressional District

The most distressing revelation to come to light in the Penn State sponsored forum held at the Grange Fair on August 26th for the candidates running for the 5th Congressional District is that only one…

Christopher LongAugust 30, 2008

Civic Life Living The Long Road

A Step Closer

Exactly one year ago I wrote of the disjunction between the ideals American professes and the reality it embodies. That was the second anniversary of hurricane Katrina and the day after the 44th anniversary of…

Christopher LongAugust 29, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Blogging for WPSU

For the next few months, most of my political musings will be posted on a political blog run by WPSU, the PBS affiliate for Central Pennsylvania based at Penn State.I have been asked to join…

Christopher LongAugust 23, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

The End of Summer

Summer ended on Saturday at 4:49 am. No, this was not the moment the din and energy of 40,000 students descending upon us here in State College made itself felt - that actually began already…

Christopher LongAugust 23, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Dream Ticket

Over the past few weeks I have been thinking that Obama might just pick Hillary Clinton as VP. I know the media is saying that an Obama-Clinton ticket is unlikely, but still, consider this:Who is…

Christopher LongAugust 16, 2008

Academic Living The Long Road

The Joys of Writing

I am currently slugging through what I hope are the last few chapters of a book on Aristotle and it is not easy going. Although writing has always been something I love--crafting sentences, considering the…

Christopher LongAugust 7, 2008

Living The Long Road

A Sleepover in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, PA - The girls are finally asleep in their "hotel home" in Pittsburgh, where we have come for an overnight so we could visit the Pittsburgh Children's Musuem and the Pittsburgh Zoo. The day…

Christopher LongJuly 26, 2008

Living The Long Road

How I Lost 50 Pounds and Gained 7.5 Years

About a year ago, Val pointed me to the RealAge.com website and I took the RealAge test. The test is designed to calculate your "real age" as opposed to your "chronological age" based upon your…

Christopher LongJuly 20, 2008

Living The Long Road

Shopping in Enviro-Style

A few weeks ago my Aunt Cathie wrote us an email about a business her niece, Renee Fischer, had started with her friend, Carla Manna. The name of the company is Neela Products and they…

Christopher LongJuly 20, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Designs on e-Learning

This September I will be presenting at the Designs on e-Learning Conference held here at Penn State. My presentation is entitled Blogging and Podcasting the Liberal Arts (the link is to the blog post on which…

Christopher LongJuly 14, 2008

Technology The Long Road

More iPod Touch Ups

I hesitate to write this after what has been such a difficult roll out for Apple of MobileMe, the Application store, firmware upgrades for the iPhone and iPod Touch and, of course, the introduction of…

Christopher LongJuly 13, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Obama Mamas and Papas

Yesterday, in the spirit of the Obama campaign's attempt to organize "Unite for Change" neighborhood parties across the country, we gathered with some of our neighbors for an "Obama Mamas and Papas" party. Thanks to…

Christopher LongJune 29, 2008

Living The Long Road

A Small World

FREIBURG, GERMANY - I have been struck during my short visit here in Germany by the way the world is at once made smaller by the internet and yet remains also somehow large enough that…

Christopher LongJune 21, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Ontological Response-Ability and the Ethics of Truth

FREIBURG, GERMANY - Today I present a paper entitled Ontological Response-Ability and the Ethics of Truth at a conference jointly organized by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Pennsylvania State University.The paper will outline some of the…

Christopher LongJune 19, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

18 Million Cracks

Over the course of the last few months, I have been very critical of Hillary Clinton's politics. However, now is the time to recognize the powerful significance of her candidacy for the presidential nomination, to…

Christopher LongJune 10, 2008

Civic Life Living The Long Road

The Moment

So much, of course, can be said about the significance of Barack Obama's capturing the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I simply want to mark the moment by appealing to a…

Christopher LongJune 5, 2008

Living The Long Road

Gratitude

STONE HARBOR, NJ - As our week at the beach draws to a close, the girls are in bed, though not yet asleep, I type, watching the sun set from the back deck of our…

Christopher LongMay 30, 2008

Living The Long Road

The Passing Details of Life at the Beach

STONE HARBOR, NJ - The passing details of life at the beach: Hannah standing on one foot.Chloe and Danny playing with Jake in the pool.The breeze smells of the salt sea.Danny reading a bedtime story to…

Christopher LongMay 27, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Divisive Politics

Leigh Johnson makes a very good point that to the extent that Hillary Clinton's continuation in the race for the Democratic nomination calls our attention to the struggle of women in American society, she should…

Christopher LongMay 8, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Hot Air and Gas

If one wants an immediate sense of the different kind of politics Barack Obama is offering, look no further than the recent discussion of gas prices in the campaign. At a time when the Obama…

Christopher LongMay 2, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Fear and Obliteration

Fear and obliteration are the two words that currently define the Clinton campaign and mark the substantive difference between a possible Clinton and Obama presidency. First, taking a page directly out of the Karl Rove…

Christopher LongApril 29, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

A Bright Light on an Otherwise Tough Night

Well, last night did not bring the victory for Obama and the conclusion to the Democratic nominating process that I had hoped. It seems that Obama's defeat in PA was largely due to the voting…

Christopher LongApril 23, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Our Turn

OK, Pennsylvania readers, it is now our turn to weigh in on the Democratic nominating process. I hope tomorrow will put an end to the long primary season with a decisive victory for Obama. The…

Christopher LongApril 21, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Obama wins Debate, will win PA

If the title of this post is unequivocal and definitive, it is offered in the spirit and style of the American mass media punditocracy. No sooner was the debate on Tuesday over than commentators and…

Christopher LongApril 18, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Obama in PA

As many people must have heard, Barack Obama stopped in State College last Sunday on his six day tour of Pennsylvania. The girls and I were there with 22,000 other people for the largest political…

Christopher LongApril 4, 2008

Academic Education Technology The Long Road

Podcasting and Blogging the Liberal Arts

A Liberal Arts Education is committed to cultivating habits of thinking and acting capable of responding to the world in ways that open new possibilities for human community. It is oriented in part by what…

Christopher LongMarch 23, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

The Growing Up of an Adolescent Country

In his 1961 essay, The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King, James Baldwin speaks of the death of segregation in America and he raises the question as to "just how long, how violent, and how…

Christopher LongMarch 19, 2008

Civic Life Living The Long Road

State College Obama Office Opens

Tonight I went with my neighbor and friend, Paul, and his daughter, Caitlin, and with my daughters, Hannah and Chloe, to the opening of the Obama campaign office here in State College. There were many…

Christopher LongMarch 18, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Registering to Vote in PA

To those readers of this blog living in PA, now is the time to make sure you are registered to vote in the Pennsylvania primary. The deadline is March 24th, so if you want to…

Christopher LongMarch 15, 2008

Living The Long Road

Happy Birthday Val/Mom

Today is Val's 40th Birthday!To celebrate, Hannah, Chloe and I put together this video. They wanted me to write: "We love you Momma, because you're so great. Happy Birthday." Have a wonderful birthday Val:

Christopher LongMarch 10, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

PSU for Obama

A number of graduate students, faculty and Penn State staff have started a Google Group to spread the word about Obama and generate excitement about his campaign. It seems now that Pennsylvania will finally have…

Christopher LongMarch 6, 2008

Living The Long Road

Winter Hike

On Sunday, Val, Hannah, Chloe and I went on a winter nature hike sponsored by the Millbrook Marsh Nature Center. Although everything was covered with snow, we were about to witness the more dormant side…

Christopher LongMarch 4, 2008

Living The Long Road

Laughter

WNYC's Radio Lab did a wonderful set of stories on laughter recently. They appeal to Aristotle as having said that human beings "are the only ones of the animals that laugh" (Parts of Animals, 673a7).…

Christopher LongMarch 1, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Hope with an Edge

My Dad wrote me an email today suggesting I take a look at David Brook's column, When the Magic Fades, in the New York Times. He wanted to know what I thought, so here it is:In that…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

APS Presentation on Schürmann

In April, I will give a paper entitled "The Duplicity of Beginning: Schürmann, Aristotle and the Origins of Metaphysics" at the Eighth Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, which will meet this year…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Preemptive Dialogue

I have recently been struck by, and stuck between, two critiques of Obama's foreign policy approach. The first, articulated here in Kristin Rawl's thoughtful response to my last post on Style with Substance, argues that…

Christopher LongFebruary 15, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Style with Substance

To the degree that I have embraced the power of Obama's words as a way to move the country toward a new way of thinking about politics, I risk giving the impression that I too…

Christopher LongFebruary 9, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Yes We Can

There is really only one message this week: Yes We Can.Will.i.am, who says he is not big on politics, was nevertheless moved after New Hampshire to write and produce this song based on the speech…

Christopher LongFebruary 3, 2008

Living The Long Road

January Travels, Pictures

January is a paradoxical month: it contains the hope of new beginnings in the very dead of winter.In early January, we traveled to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Little did we know when Chloe posed for this…

Christopher LongFebruary 2, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

A New Political Calculus

The Obama campaign continues to perplex the pundits and the politicians who insist on operating with an outdated political calculus based on fear, hatred and self-interest. Some in the press see Obama's dominant victory in…

Christopher LongJanuary 27, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

Toward a Mature Politics

In his famous essay, What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant writes: Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.Kant, Immanuel. “An Answer…

Christopher LongJanuary 25, 2008

Civic Life The Long Road

The Politics of Hate

Today as the Republicans of South Carolina again go to the polls, I am returned to those critical days in the Republican primary in 2000 when Karl Rove deployed a strategy of hate and fear…

Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2008

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