I recently watched Life Itself, the wonderful documentary about the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013). It has a rotten tomatoes score of 100% among top critics. Continue reading Roger Ebert: Life Itself
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist,essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English.[1] Known as the “Sage of Baltimore“, Continue reading Mencken’s Creed
(You can find a more detailed summary of Kant’s ethics here.)
Kant’s most basic presupposition regarding ethics was his belief in human freedom. While the natural world operates according to laws of cause and effect, the moral world operates according to self-imposed “laws of freedom.” Continue reading Summary of Kant’s Ethics (short version)
In his book On the Meaning of Life
Marie Curie as a professor
I vividly remember walking into my first college classroom almost 30 years ago. I was nervous and excited at the same time. Was I the professor or an impostor? What would I say for 50 minutes, 3 times a week, for 16 weeks? Continue reading Reflections on a 30 Year College Teaching Career