Interview in 2013 on corporal punishment for the Swedish National TV News Service
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
Looking forward to giving an interview about Uniting Mississippi on WDAM’s television news, channel 7.
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2010 photo of a class meeting out in the Grove
This photo was taken in 2010, during a class meeting of the spring semester honors writing course in the University of Mississippi’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. The photo was taken out on a beautiful day in the Grove. Photo by Blake Belcher. Copyright Weber 2010.
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Delusions of Genocide & the Real Thing
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
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
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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Marveling at Human Potential, Part 1
It is easy today to find examples of things that are simply marvels of human invention and brilliance. The everyday cellphone today is a pretty amazing instrument, considering all that one can do. This past week, I had a chance to see an exhibit of replicas of the items that were found in the tomb…
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2013 Swedish National TV News service Interview on Corporal Punishment in MS Public Schools
In August of 2013, I participated in an interview with Swedish National TV News service, SVT Nyheter, on the subject of corporal punishment in Mississippi schools. If you click on the video here above, you’ll see their piece from the start. You can also jump to my interview, 2 min’s in (the rest of the piece is in…
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Guest View: Don’t gut the Dewey Center
I am an alumnus of SIUC’s Ph.D. program in philosophy. I am writing to urge you to continue full support for the Center for Dewey Studies. I understand that the center has been asked to prepare a budgetary plan for a reduction of its support by 50 percent. Were that reduction to be applied, it…
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My thesis student and University of Mississippi alumnus Taylor McGraw (right) receiving the 2010 Barksdale Award from Honors College Dean Doug Sullivan-Gonzalez and congratulated by the great Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.
I have had some pretty remarkable experiences at the University of Mississippi, as well as some wonderful students to work with (Yes, I end sometimes with a preposition). It’s deeply meaningful to see one’s students so honored and successful.
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(Larger) In June of 2015, I met with a group of Grisham Scholars, visiting from Dallas, TX.
The group was from Dallas’s ‘s Uplift Education charter schools. We met in Bryant Hall, where we talked a little bit about my field, philosophy. I explained the major branches of philosophy, and then we talked about how practical philosophy is or can be. To illustrate that, we covered a controversial case in medical ethics,…
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‘Coping with Uncertainty,’ Ep3 of Philosophy Bakes Bread
[featured-image link=”http://philosophybakesbread.com/2015/07/31/ep3-coping-with-uncertainty/” link_single=”http://philosophybakesbread.com/2015/07/31/ep3-coping-with-uncertainty/” single_newwindow=”true”]Episode 3 of Philosophy Bakes Bread is out! It’s called “Coping with Uncertainty.” You can listen to it here, visit the podcast site’s page for the episode, or subscribe to the podcast’s RSS feed here. Or, you can also download it to listen to it later. iTunes has it updated there too,…
