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May 1, 2009

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Facing up to dumbness

What has happened to our K-12 education? We prefer sameness over distinction, and mediocrity is the inevitable result. We don’t hold students accountable to high standards. Instead, we rescue, drug, track and eventually pass unqualified students.
We don’t live in a fail-proof world. Reality is harsh; easy street is over. It’s time to hold students accountable, and let people fail, American Idol-style.

May 1, 2009

Week of April 26, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.All are invited to the opening reception of "Sealed|Revealed," Thursday, May 7, 7:00-9:00 pm at...

Take and Eat

Apr 24, 2009

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Take and Eat

Linocut 5" x 7" December 2008I am a big fan of Sadao Watanabe's work, and was inspired this past Christmas to try and make a Last Supper image that would have a similar feel to his art. My homage to Watanabe did not succeed as I had hoped, but I still ended up with...

Apr 24, 2009

Week of April 19, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Christian faith informs the activism of exiled Cuban trade union leader Pedro Pablo Alvarez...

Apr 24, 2009

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A new take on Tory

In these days of ideological confusion, we are all scrambling to make sense of a political landscape more fluid and difficult to map than anything since the 1930s.

Apr 24, 2009

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Susan Boyle and YouTube: A Symposium

By 3:29 p.m. EDT, on Tuesday, April 21, the YouTube clip of Susan Boyle singing “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables had enjoyed 37,001,482 views. Media like YouTube are changing the way we participate in musical culture.
Comment asked regular contributors to answer two questions in response to this phenomenon:

What is your favourite YouTube clip?
How has YouTube or similar media affected your media consumption habits?

—The Editors

An Easter Orchard

Apr 17, 2009

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An Easter Orchard

A contemporary Canadian poet has a radical take on the cross, because he is a carpenter who pays close attention to city trees.

Apr 17, 2009

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The root of our financial crisis

A new view of the “American Dream” was being created, including a “right” to unlimited consumption, achieved without personal responsibility. But now this unrealistic, ephemeral dream has become a nightmare, exported globally.

Apr 17, 2009

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Bearing witness in a stereotyping world

Gary Goodyear, one of Stephen Harper’s federal cabinet ministers, has been burned badly by “gotcha” journalism on a question of evolution.
But the real question, lying just below the surface, is this: Is there a proper place to articulate religious beliefs? Can believers find public spaces where their beliefs are respected, not targeted?