In the distance is the sound of drums and horns. The high school band has begun to practice again behind the football field where young men run and tackle, drilling for the new season. The…
Christopher LongAugust 21, 2007
Last week I wondered whether Congress would have the courage to pursue the question of impeachment. This week we received the unequivocal answer: no. In fact, not only will the Congress not pursue the national…
Christopher LongAugust 8, 2007
In the Federalist Papers #65, Alexander Hamilton articulates the "true spirit" of the institution of impeachment written into the constitution. Article II, section 4 of the United States Constitution, puts the question of impeachment in…
Christopher LongAugust 1, 2007
AVALON, NJ - This is a place of liminal passages: the pines give way to dunes, the dunes to sea, the sea to the horizon and an openness of possibility. The elements too pass into…
Christopher LongJuly 21, 2007
In the Poetics, Aristotle says: To imitate is co-natural to human-beings from childhood and in this they differ from other animals because they are the most imitative and produce their first acts of understanding by…
Christopher LongJuly 12, 2007
I am beginning to think about the significance of RSS feeds and how they might be used in teaching. Google has a number of tools of potential importance for teaching. For example, the Google Reader…
Christopher LongJuly 3, 2007
In the June 25, 2007 edition of the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reports on the report General Taguba filed chronicling the "systematic and illegal abuse" of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison and its initial…
Christopher LongJune 25, 2007
Last weekend my family participated in the annual Strawberry festival at the Village Acres Farm, where we are members of their community supported agriculture (CSA) program. As you can see, the strawberries were beautiful, and…
Christopher LongJune 18, 2007
The title of this web log is more than a play on the name of its author. It refers specifically to Socrates' insistence in the Republic (at 435d and 503c-d) that the path to truth,…
Christopher LongJune 10, 2007
