Monthly Archives: July 2006

I went to school in the height of the values clarification/situation ethics craze. We played the lifeboat game, the one where we voted which of a certain list of people should be kicked off a lifeboat if we have more people than food supplies on that lifeboat.We charted our values for different moral questions- where […]

Itazurrako made some very interesting points about college and professors in the comments to the post below about the student who wants you and me to put grad school in her grasping hands. Her remarks reminded me that in one of his Rabbi David Small mysteries, Harry Kemelman talked about that very thing and made […]

For decades it was the mantra of the left that Whittaker Chambers was a liar, McCarthy a deranged liar, and the Rosenburgs and Alger Hiss were innocent victims of a dreadful injustice perpetrated by rightwing demagogues. I don’t think our young scholars can properly have a sense of the 20th century, especially the first half, […]