Seeing and Being Seen
Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a …
More on Twitter
In my previous post about why I don’t use Twitter I found my way to two sentences that have stood out for …
Why I Don’t Use Twitter
Questioning digital technologies is a core value of the KSC Open project. And we have much to learn. For many years I …
In Medias Res
“Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Montaigne, or the Skeptic,” Representative Men: …
Teaching + Living + Learning
As one of the leaders of a new project KSC Open, I have been sorting through a decade of intellectual work in …
Knowing and Doing
Among the enduring privileges of professing college English is designing opportunities for students to discover through their studies possibilities in their lives …
The Fruit of Education
One of my current preoccupations as the Director of the Integrative Studies program is thinking about the common elements of a baccalaureate …
Democratic Spaces
From the excitement of the NAPLA project in the fall of 2016 to the challenges of the Open Space of Democracy in …
Days in the Open
I am becoming increasingly aware of a conversation that I did not know I was a part of. Or perhaps it is …
Environmental Humanities at Exeter
It began with a conversation. Jason wanted to talk over a new environmental literature course at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Mark, at …
