Academic Marxism Part I

People who do not study history tend to always show their ignorance when it comes to Karl Marx and Marxism. I have come across a number of Christians who state “how can you teach Marxism — it subscribes to atheism.” At this point I stop then list the number of books, people, and views taught [...]

Sexism by Jaylon Williams

Jaylon has been commenting on this blog now for almost a year; he is a regular that offers some thoughtful suggestions to various blog posts. I love it when people decided to e-mail me great stuff to publish — this one came out of the blue. Jaylon’s piece discusses the fact that women simply [...]

What Does Academic Life Mean?

As you can tell from the above pictures, we educators are very passionate about our academic craft. Teaching offers a number of wonderful joys that makes our job seem easy and at times a blessing.
As seen in this picture to the left, the seminar method of teaching is very rewarding. Sitting around a table and [...]

Fred Thompson by Cole Thomas

Cole Thomas addresses the man I believe could be the next Ronald Reagan. Fred Thompson, in my opinion, is not only a wonderful actor (Die Hard, Law & Order, etc), he is the only conservative candidate that has a chance at defeating Hillary R. Clinton. This is a really good piece. ~EC~

I have no [...]

Campus Beauty

I am off to Princeton University tomorrow morning. This will be my third trip to the prestigious New Jersey college. In preparation for the work that I will be doing at Princeton over the course of four days, I thought that I would share my top “most attractive campus” list. Of course this is a [...]

Thinking about Summer

Teacherwoman has been asking me about my summer plans now for a few weeks; I will say that this summer will be far more relaxing than last. For those of you who have a desire to become an educator, the package deal is pretty good. Advice: Teach at a school with high SAT scores (it [...]

Thoughts on Duke, Class, and Race

The District Attorney recently exonerated all members charged with sexual assault in the Duke University lacrosse case. There were clearly no winners here. Moreover, the Duke lacrosse case illustrates both the racial and class resentment that exists in America. Just like the O.J. murder case, Duke lacrosse brought to life both the social and economic problems Americans tend to ignore. [...]

College and Post-College Students Please Stand UP

I first posted this piece back in October. Since many of my students are receiving their acceptance and rejection letters, I thought I would revisit this post again. I need many of you college graduates and college going students to tell me what important point I missed. Better yet, I need to know what point [...]

Dr. Blum’s Recent Work on DuBois

For those of you at independent schools and colleges and universities that I have met and worked with over the years, you know what a fan I am of the late W.E.B. DuBois. I recently wrote here about my hopes of taking a sabbatical to retrace DuBois’ German experience. Beyond my desire to focus on [...]

Imus’ “Nappy-Headed” Comment

I watched some of the women’s NCAA basketball national championship game this past week. Congratulation to Pat Summitt and the Tennessee Lady Vols for winning their 7th national title. What I remember the most about this game, unfortunately, was Don Imus morning radio comment where he called the black Rutgers female players “nappy-headed hos.” I [...]

Cold War Movies & Education

Both AP European History and AP U.S. History are in the midst of studying the Cold War. Okay, we are a week behind in reaching this topic in U.S. History.  Every year at this point of study I find myself getting caught up in Cold War allegorocal movies. One of my all time favorites is Invasion of [...]

Why I Would Vote for Rudy over Hillary by Joe Moore

The following piece was written by Joe Moore, a sophomore in my World History course. Joe does a nice job following current trends and political developments. Feel free to leave Joe a comment regarding this political piece. Note: The views below do not represent those of Edward Carson. ~EC~
Let’s start out with the basics so [...]

Art and Religion

My AP European History class spend a great deal of time looking at various pieces of art over the course of a year. Religion tends to be the most dominate theme expressed in many of the artistic genres studied in my Modern European course. I cannot count the number of depictions we viewed of Christ [...]