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“Try Charter Schools Experiment Where Others Failing” (2010)
Posted onAugust 25, 2015May 26, 2016

Now that my new site is up, I’m slowly but surely adding to it the pieces I had up on my old site. This was my first op-ed published in The Clarion Ledger, published March 6, 2010, on 9A. I am grateful for permission to republish my pieces here and elsewhere. [featured-image link=”https://www.academia.edu/3000449/Try_Charter_Schools_Experiment_Where_Others_Failing” link_single=”https://www.academia.edu/3000449/Try_Charter_Schools_Experiment_Where_Others_Failing” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Photo of…

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‘Acceptance & Happiness with Stoicism,’ Ep1 of Philosophy Bakes Bread
ByEric Weber Posted onAugust 24, 2015

Here’s episode 1 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, titled “Acceptance & Happiness with Stoicism.” You can listen to it here above or you can visit the podcast’s page for this episode here. You can subscribe to the podcast’s RSS feed here. If you prefer, you can download the MP3 file here and listen to it later. iTunes has…

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Interview on Practical Philosophy in Berlin
Posted onAugust 20, 2015May 26, 2016

Professor Chris Skowronski, Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy at Opole University, Poland, interviewed me at the Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum conference on August 13, 2015. [youtube id=”dRGTlFU0xyc”] I’m grateful to Chris and to Maja Niestroj for the interview, the video, and the hospitality while I was in Berlin. It was…

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5 Reasons Scholars Need Facebook Author Pages
Posted onAugust 19, 2015May 26, 2016

Scholars tend to be shy or humble, often going to great lengths to avoid anything that might smack of self-promotion or over-confidence. There’s good reason for this. The academy trains you to be skeptical, to demand evidence, and to be reserved about matters that you’ve not yet carefully considered. [featured-image link=”http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/08/Bertrand-Russell-1951-014.jpg” link_single=”http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/08/Bertrand-Russell-1951-014.jpg” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Image of Bertrand…

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‘Purpose in Life and Work,’ Ep2 of Philosophy Bakes Bread
ByEric Weber Posted onAugust 18, 2015

Here’s episode 2 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, titled “Purpose in Life and Work.” You can listen to it here above or you can visit the podcast’s page for this episode here. You can subscribe to the podcast’s RSS feed here. If you prefer, you can download the MP3 file here and listen to it later. iTunes…

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2010 Interview on Memphis’s WREG, Channel 3’s Live at 9 Morning Show
ByEric Weber Posted onAugust 18, 2015

I gave an interview in 2010 on the Day of Dialogue at the University of Mississippi on February 22nd. You can watch the interview here.

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Interview in 2013 on corporal punishment for the Swedish National TV News Service
ByEric Weber Posted onAugust 18, 2015

Gave a 2013 interview on SVT Nyheter, Sweden’s national TV news service, talking about corporal punishment in Mississippi. You can watch the interview here.

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Interview on Uniting Mississippi with WDAM of Hattiesburg, MS
ByEric Weber Posted onAugust 18, 2015

Looking forward to giving an interview about Uniting Mississippi on WDAM’s television news, channel 7.

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Gluttony cartoon
ByEric Weber Posted onAugust 17, 2015

If people treated gluttony like they treat some other sins, they’d tell me “No, you may not have fries with that!” The economy in the U.S. would really take a hit too, I’d wager. Cartoon by Kevin Frank, from May 28, 2015. Visit KevinFrank.net to check out his work. This particular cartoon is on his site here. I’m…

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Delusions of Genocide & the Real Thing
Posted onAugust 16, 2015May 26, 2016

On returning home from Germany, I was startled to hear a voicemail from a white supremacist campaigning for President. It repeated the old trope that there is a genocide being perpetrated on the white race. In the United States, we often throw around words like “Nazi” and “genocide.” Seinfeld’s funny “Soup Nazi” story is one thing, but ridiculous…

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Marveling at Human Potential, Part 2
Posted onAugust 13, 2015May 26, 2016

One of the remarkable things rarely considered among average museum-goers is the somewhat unbelievable fact that nations in the Western world have gone to places like Egypt and taken out of sacred and historical landmarks beautiful cultural treasures. It is true that archaeologists get permits. It is true that the explorer who found Tutankhamun’s tomb…

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Processing Our Dachau Concentration Camp Visit
Posted onAugust 10, 2015May 26, 2016

I’ll write more about this soon. I’m still processing what we saw there. It was harshly jarring for my sense of what human beings are capable of doing – not one or a few troubling individuals, but a coordinated secret police force. Truly sobering. The experience was visceral. The gate door to the camp reads…

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Culture

“Try Charter Schools Experiment Where Others Failing” (2010)

‘Acceptance & Happiness with Stoicism,’ Ep1 of Philosophy Bakes Bread

Interview on Practical Philosophy in Berlin

5 Reasons Scholars Need Facebook Author Pages

‘Purpose in Life and Work,’ Ep2 of Philosophy Bakes Bread

2010 Interview on Memphis’s WREG, Channel 3’s Live at 9 Morning Show

Interview in 2013 on corporal punishment for the Swedish National TV News Service

Interview on Uniting Mississippi with WDAM of Hattiesburg, MS

Gluttony cartoon

Delusions of Genocide & the Real Thing

Marveling at Human Potential, Part 2

Processing Our Dachau Concentration Camp Visit

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