March 2009
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The Quiet Coup →
Must-read article about the financial crisis, from Simon Johnson writing in The Atlantic. There is also a companion piece of sorts, an article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone that is very powerful and an unvarnished attack on the dismantling of the Glass-Steagal Act, presided over by Bill Clinton and Phil Gramm. I’m linking to it but a warning: he does use profanity.
Does Having Children Make You Happy? →
This article was intriguing. Having children has made me happy like nothing else, for the last 25 years.
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Horace Greeley High School →
Where I’m teaching now, as of Monday. I’m a leave replacement until June, and have five classes of extremely nice students: three sophomore groups in European Civilization and two freshman classes of Global Studies. In my few days so far, everyone has been extremely supportive and lovely.
Australia Thoughts
It’s now been almost a week since we returned from Australia, and I’m still processing a lot of what we saw and learned. Australians, especially in Sydney, seemed to mirror our culture, with glimpses of English life thrown in. In Melbourne, though, a city that has welcomed many Vietnamese refugees over the years, we were struck by the number of Asian faces walking by us in the...
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