tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post7675622226134553215..comments2024-03-28T01:17:42.336-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: A QUIET WORDRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24041940105222287342017-05-27T02:26:35.484-04:002017-05-27T02:26:35.484-04:00I hope you realize that your blog is a place of re...I hope you realize that your blog is a place of refuge in this storm, despite the occasional squabbling. Your blend of scholarship and political commentary is rather unique. <br /><br />In any case, Trump is likely not to serve out his full term. So I think it may be useful to broaden these discussions to include<br />a President Pence. I read, this morning, an alarming forecast, about his proclivities (http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/26/why-pence-might-be-even-worse-than-trump/). <br /><br />I agree with you Tom. The Kushner backchannel, along with financial shenanigans, not to mention the obstruction of justice and the emoluments clause violations, may provide real substance to impeachment articles. Again, I'm not sure elevating Pence is anything to get excited about, however. Hopefully, Pence will get dragged down too.Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-64173075033417546682017-05-26T21:37:41.101-04:002017-05-26T21:37:41.101-04:00A ray of hope: lt looks as if the Kushner backchan...A ray of hope: lt looks as if the Kushner backchannel story may have lit a fire under even the Republicans on the Senate Committee. Tom Cathcarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16136970056480275148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-2353087356318700652017-05-26T18:38:51.743-04:002017-05-26T18:38:51.743-04:00Professor Wolff,
As I've alluded to in previo...Professor Wolff,<br /><br />As I've alluded to in previous comments, I started an ad hoc group to study how we could better integrate ethnic studies into our social studies curricula. We're now meeting weekly, and while we're mostly still brainstorming, I envision that eventually our discussions will be formalized into concrete proposals.<br /><br />Part of my own self-study has included reading your <i>Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America</i>. I found the book to be lively, insightful, entertaining, and inspiring. I highly recommend it to your blog readers, if they haven't read it already.<br /><br />I don't wish to diminish the concerns you express in this post. In fact, I share them. However, I try to remind myself that many people in this country have faced much worse, and often they have faced it with courage and grace.Ludwig Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145442092958521609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-68316896179136177692017-05-26T17:15:54.935-04:002017-05-26T17:15:54.935-04:00I'd just add "passive complicity" to...I'd just add "passive complicity" to your mention of "acquiescence"<br /><br /><br />s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-22187265956294100542017-05-26T16:46:42.035-04:002017-05-26T16:46:42.035-04:00Dear Professor:
Your gut instinct has greater ref...Dear Professor:<br /><br />Your gut instinct has greater refinement than my own. To me it seems like some evil experiment on learned helplessness on lab rats (like the experiments that won Seligmnan notoriety)- we are drifting and drifting- we do not want to assist Trump, but how do we resist, just by trying to keep our lives and institutions from failing, when we cannot resist effectively as individuals or even by taking to the streets or with institutions which are failing or not up to the task.<br />Sometimes I feel as pessimistic as you. It really does look bad at certain times of the day, I must say.This is virgin territory, so no body has a clue.<br />Even existence as if going about our lives as an act of defiance seems futilehoward bnoreply@blogger.com