Peace and Protest: Objections to Goshen College

It’s been a few weeks since this small media ruckus developed, but I want to comment on it nonetheless.
On November 10, the nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host Mike Gallagher aired a segment in which he noted that Goshen College, a small Mennonite institution near South Bend, IN, refrains from singing the United States’ national [...]

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The Problem With “Stuff White People Like”

One of the fastest-growing and most popular blogs online right now is Christian Lander’s Stuff White People Like. For those unfamiliar, Stuff White People Like consists of expostulations and riffs on cherished white practices: buying expensive water bottles, raving about the film Juno, supporting Obama, driving hybrid cars, and backing environmentalist causes. Lander crafts a [...]

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Can Blogging Derail an Academic Career?

When I started this blog several months ago, I cited my status as an unproven academic as the chief reason for my reticence to blog.  Ultimately I decided that “if I don’t blog, I may never be in position to accept an assistant professor position, a career goal that I once believed blogging would potentially [...]

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Blogging and the Triumph of Consumer Capitalism

Just about once a week, I have the same reoccurring epiphany: the Internet exists solely to make money. The event that led me to that realization today, my stumbling across Thisisby.us, has effectively split my online writing persona. But better yet, it’s encouraged me to create a distinction between things I want to write because [...]

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