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Geography as an Example

Let me be very quick: Geography is not taught [if it is taught at all] as if there are no rivers, mountains, plains, valleys, coasts, seas, or oceans. Cities, towns, villages and the networks that connect them exist in even the most elementary geography lesson. Geographers don’t begin their lessons by ignoring reality. They dive […]

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More Fog

We still don’t have much clue what the Republicans want to do with their tax plan. It isn’t that we can’t understand the details, it is that there are no details to understand. Take the corporate tax rate. The big argument being put forward for a change in the corporate tax rate is that, at […]

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Las Vegas

So we go through it all again. We go through the constant call for prayers. The incessant search for reasons; the outpouring of emotion; the interviews; the graphics; the enumeration of mayhem; the grief of families; the interviews with experts; and the silence of the voices lost. There are never, however, efforts to deal with the […]

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