by Barry Fagin | Jan 31, 2011 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-29-05} The opera is over; the fat evolutionary biologist has sung. Intelligent design in public schools is dead. The issue will never get to the Supreme Court, because there’s nothing left to decide. The...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 6, 2011 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
This blog may not be without import. The first article ever published here in November 2009 (on the birthday of Socrates) told the tale of my Alma Mater’s reclassification of all liberal arts degrees as “various” in their alumni publication. The...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 25, 2010 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
I wasn’t shocked by an article in The Chronicle, “The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story”. The writer makes a living churning out everything from master’s theses to medical care plans for everyone...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 27, 2010 | Education, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience
{2005} In our senseless and bloody Culture War, people like me don’t exist. You know the war I mean. On one side: Bible-thumping Christians and cultural conservatives, utterly convinced that God is with them. On the other: The ACLU, atheists, and the usual crew of...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 20, 2010 | Education, Society & Culture
{2005} When it comes to math, Colorado schools get a D. That’s D as in barely passing. D as in Dereliction of Duty for Dogmatically Disseminating Dumbed-Down Doggie Doo in Districts from Denver to Durango. As a computer science professor, I’ve been doing math all my...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 6, 2010 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{December 2004} A few days ago, the AARP came out against the president’s social security reform proposal. Bush had the temerity to allow workers to decide for themselves whether to invest part of their payroll taxes in private accounts. Even something this modest is...
