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  • “The Answer Is Out There,” (On the romance of space travel), April 15-21, 2007, 33
  • “Butchering the Language,” (On the decline in public discourse), April 8-14, 2007, 32
  • “The Graduation Coach Scam,” (On ill-conceived legislative proposals to improve the high school graduation rate), April 1-7, 2007, 32
  • “What Do Teachers Teach?,” (On the deficiencies of college departments of education), March 25-31, 2007, 31
  • “Whether Pigs Have Wings,” (On the war in Iraq: anti-Bush trilogy, part II), March 18-24, 2007, 29
  • “The Long and Short of the School Year,” March 11-17, 2007, 35
  • “Not Under God,” (On the impropriety of “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance), March 4-10, 2007, 32
  • “Bush’s GOP: The Slithy Toves and Other Tales,” (On the incompetence of President Bush’s governance: anti-Bush trilogy, part I), February 25-March 3, 2007, 34
  • “Mass-Produced Poison—From Homer to Elmo,” (On violence in western literature and in defense of television), February 18-24, 2007, 30
  • “Every Child Left Behind,” (On leaving NCLB behind) February 11-17, 2007, 32
  • “What Should Schools Do?,” (On the importance of our schools) February 4-10, 2007, 32
  • “More Band-Aids from Perdue & Co.,” (On the ineptness of political leaders when they address education), January 28-February 3, 2007, 26
  • “U.S. Education: From Bad to Worse,” (On the decline of American education), January 21-27, 2007, 29
  • “Homosexuality and Religion,” (On ignorance of scripture and the Biblical understanding of homosexuality), January 14-20, 2007, 36
  • “English: Our Official Language,” (On the desirability of having a national language), January 7-13, 2007, 27
  • “Cobb County’s Stickers Are Gone, But the Controversy Remains,” (On evolution and creationism), December 31, 2006-January 6, 2007, 28
  • “Creativity at the Cost of Literacy,” (On the flaws in our notion of creativity) December 24-30, 2006, 30
  • “Eradicating Sexism”, December 17-23, 2006, 30
  • “Blame the Name Game,” (On the misuse of the terms “liberal” and “conservative”), December 10-16, 2006, 31
  • “Gypped: The Overpriced Tragedy of Atlanta’s Schools,” (On mismanagement of our schools), December 3-9, 2006, 29
  • “Six Lies About Georgia’s Schools,” (On the destructive beliefs that poison our schools), November 26-December 2, 2006, 29 [first weekly column]
  • "Chasing Harry Potter,” (On censorship), October 15-21, 2006, 27
  • "Take the Good with the Bad,” (On technology), September 24-30, 2006, 29
  • "Ameliorating the Effects of Our Humanity,” (On legislating human sexuality), September 17-23, 2006, 29
  • "The Truth Will Set the Press Free,” (On the need for freedom of the press), August 27-September 2, 2006, 29
  • "A Matter of Viability,” (On embryonic stem cell research), August 13-19, 2006, 29
  • "Sheehan’s Infallibility Was Conferred By the Right,” (In defense of Cindy Sheehan’s dignity) July 30-August 5 , 2006, 29
  • “Voting is for Everyone,” (On the importance of voting), July 9-15, 2006, 29
  • “Unconscionably Low Standards,” (On the need for school reform) June 25-July 1, 2006, 29
  • “Racism is a Southern Thing,” (On the hidden racism in Atlanta), June 11-17, 2006, 27
  • “Students Need Clear Requirements,” (On deficiencies in state education standards), May 21-27, 2006, 10

Other Publications That Are Not Yet Online

  • “The Divine Detective in the Guilty Vicarage: G.K. and W.H.,” The Armchair Detective, 19 (1), 1986
  • “A Note on Translating an Aristotelian Dative and tÚ t€ ∑n e‰nai,” New Scholasticism, 58 (2), Spring 1984
  • “Stephen Knight, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, and Dennis Porter, The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction,” College Literature, 10 (2), 1983
  • “Kant on Detective Fiction,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 17 (1), 1983
  • “Edgar Dryden, Melville’s Thematics of Form: the Great Art of Telling the Truth, and Sharon Cameron, The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne,” College Literature, 10 (1), 1983
  • “Robin Winks, Modus Operandi: an Excursion into Detective Fiction,” College Literature, 9 (2), 1982
  • “A Hitherto Unremarked Pun in the Phaedrus,” Apeiron, 15 (2), 1981
  • Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing (Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1981)


Presentations

  • “The Crossroads of Judaism and Christianity: comparison of Jewish and Christian thought (through selected Biblical texts, Maimonides, and Milton),” Edge Institute, Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, Jan. 12-Feb. 9, 2006
  • “Pablo Neruda’s “Plenos Poderes”,” Keller Writers’ Association, Sep 11, 2004
  • “The Gospel Truth, or the Battle of the Books: reflections on the difference in tone and teaching between Jewish scripture and the Christian testament,” First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, Mar 21, 2004
  • “On Frost and cummings as deliberate artists,” Keller Writers’ Association, Feb 7, 2004
  • “Keats’s “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”: reading, writing, and what it means to be human,” Keller Writers’ Association, Aug 3, 2002; rev. version, First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, Jan 26, 2003
  • “Teaching an Inflected Language to Today’s Students,” Texas Foreign Language Association (TFLA) Conference, Nov 9, 2002, Fort Worth, TX
  • “Introductory Lessons for Students of Inflected Languages,” TFLA Conference, Apr 5, 2002, Midland, TX
  • ”Translation Strategies for Students of an Inflected Language,” Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) Conference, Mar 17, 2001, San Francisco, CA
  • “Teaching a Middle School and High School Video Film Making Elective,” FWISD Language Arts In-service, Aug 2000
  • ”Introducing Contemporary Students to an Inflected Language,” SWCOLT Conference, Mar 18, 2000, Salt Lake City, UT