Can We Teach Students to Love Reading?

Alan Jacobs says no.

Writing What You (Don't) Know

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/08/don-rsquo-t-write-what-you-know/8576/

Internet Addiction

Some of these people sound like those Don Gately works with:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/technology-addiction-chocolate-caffeine.html

Green Sellout

Man, people!

things for safekeeping

on translation (reading and writing as translation) and don quixote.

on 'the windhover'.

this country...

Kent Brockman: I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy simply does not work.

Last Line

"God, we know you can kill us! We know you're strongest! You don't need to show us!"