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Blog Entries by Paul Stoller from 09/2011

Seeking a More Cosmopolitan America

| Posted 09.07.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: The Middle East, Reality TV, Foreign Travel, Education, Africa, World Politics, Economic Systems, Cultural Anthropology, Innovation, Higher Education, Relgious Beliefs, Celebrity Culture, Imagination, War in Iraq, Foreign Language Learning, Huffington Post News

The lack of volition to travel overseas corresponds to a shocking ignorance about other parts of the world. Contemporary students are notoriously ignorant of world geography. Many of them think that Africa, for example, is one country rather than a continent of 53 sovereign nations.

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Tea Party America

| Posted 09.14.2011 | Politics
Read More: Social Security, Capital Punishment, President Obama, Poverty, GOP Debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Racism, Social Darwinism, Medicare, Tea Party, Republican Party, Big Government, Politics News

In Tea Party America, you have to take personal responsibility, which means you pay most of your increasingly expensive medical costs, you put out your own fires, you inspect your own meat and you rebuild your own house after a natural disaster.

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Rick Perry's Anti-Science America

| Posted 09.22.2011 | College
Read More: Social Science, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Anti-Science Attitudes, Fiscal Austerity, Humanities, Universities, Texas Governor Rick Perry, College News

Should an anti-science candidate like Rick Perry get elected to the U.S. presidency, what might we expect in the world of higher education?

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Class Illusions

| Posted 09.28.2011 | Politics
Read More: Politics, Deficit, Myth, President Obama, Poverty, Class Warfare, Middle Class, Republicans, Social Class, Equal Opportunity, Politics News

Most Americans want to believe that they are middle class, and this notion, which goes along with the myths of American social equality and equal opportunity, makes us feel good. We don't like to discuss issues that threaten our social myths.

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