Course Readings

Reading for Nov. 18
Thompson, "Public Thinking"
Setting up a blog on Blogger

Reading for Nov. 19
Vowell, "The Partly Cloudy Patriot"
Lunsford et al, "Everything is an Argument"

Reading for Nov. 21
Kant, "On Enlightenment"
Mill, from On Liberty
Lippmann, "The Indispensible Opposition"

Reading for Nov. 24
Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief"
James, "The Will to Believe"

Reading for Nov. 26
Thoreau, "On Resistance to Civil Government"

Reading for Dec. 3
Menand, "The Abolitionist" & "The Wilderness & After"

Reading for Dec. 5 & 8
Link to Susan Glaspell's play The Inheritors.  

This link will take you to a site with THREE Glaspell plays. The Inheritors  is the last one, and begins about halfway down the scrolling screen.  I would recommend copying and pasting this play only into a new document for printing purposes.

Viewing for Dec. 9
Daniel Cohen, "For Argument's Sake"
Schultz,"On Being Wrong"

Reading for Dec. 10
Faludi, "Death of a Revolutionary"

Reading for Dec. 12
Ehrenreich, "Smile or Die" from Bright-Sided

Reading for Dec. 15
Sierra, "Why the Trolls will Always Win"
Wagner, "The Future of the Culture Wars is Here"

Reading for Dec. 17
Young, "The Five Faces of Oppression"

Viewing for Jan. 13
Emerson Spartz on Virality

Jan. 19
Mac ad 1984
CK on cell phones

Reading for Jan. 23
Sherry Turkle, from Alone Together: "Growing up Tethered" and "Anxiety"" (two chapters, 2 pdfs)

Reading for Jan. 26
Stanley Hauerwas, "9-11: A Pacifist Response"

Reading for Jan. 28
Sanneh, "The Intensity Gap" 

Reading for Jan. 30
Freitas, "God v. My Boyfriend," from Sex & The Soul

Reading for Feb. 2
Spector, "Seeds of Doubt"

Reading for Feb. 4
Lehrer, "Kin & Kind"

Reading for Feb. 6
Boo, "After Welfare"