The Necessary and Essential Difference Between Essential and Necessary
Like many families across Canada this year, my family celebrated Easter alone at home, the three of us gathered together around the table. Attempts to compensate for…
Like many families across Canada this year, my family celebrated Easter alone at home, the three of us gathered together around the table. Attempts to compensate for…
Please see John von Heyking's conversation with Allan Friesen on “1000 Ways" about pandemics, civility, free speech, friendship, and other things. It is available here.
The general goal of my Introduction to Political Studies class is for students to develop the capacity to think critically and insightfully about political reality. Thus, they…
The fourth and final subfield I cover in my Introduction to Political Studies class is Comparative Politics. This subfield is the most problematic and difficult for two…
Having considered politics from above from the Socratic perspective, and from within from the perspective of my students own regime, Canada, we now move slightly outward, to…
After considering the “big picture” questions about politics, my first-year students turn to the study of Canadian politics (in the U. S., this subfield would get covered…
In my previous posts, I explained how I try to introduce the activity of politics to students. Following my “great books” approach to introducing political science, I…
In my last post, I outlined some of the challenges in teaching an introductory class in political science. In this and the next few posts, I shall…
Teaching my university’s first-year Introduction to Political Studies (Poli 1000) is a challenge. In fact, it’s the most challenging course for me to teach. The students taking…
Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility. Arianna Dagnino. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2015. Arianna Dagnino, a researcher and sessional lecturer of…
The Unfollowing. Lyn Hejinian. Oakland, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2016. Sonnets have traditionally borrowed from the language of logic and law, presenting arguments in favor of and…
The recent discovery of King Richard III’s earthly remains in a parking lot in Leichester, England has led me to believe that I suffer from progonoplexia or…
The New Political Science Reviewer is now available with articles to read for a limited time! The link is here: https://politicalsciencereviewer.wisc.edu/index.php/psr/issue/view/51 Please subscribe or have your institution…
There are a number of reasons to read Richard Wright’s Black Boy.[1] One is that it is a fascinating, well written autobiography of an American life. Another…
The audio recording is available here. Der Wahlkampf in den USA geht in die heisse Phase. Diese Woche halten die US-Demokraten ihren Nominierungs-Parteitag ab. Aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie…