The last half of 2016 almost seems like a different year from the first. It is that the resurgence of rightwing populism was sudden but that the power it has amassed became suddenly undeniable. The danger no longer looms: it…
Category: Personal
9 Ways I’m Changing My Marathon Training This Year
With the academic year starting up again, so too is my training for the Honolulu Marathon. This year will be my second try at the course, and I want to finish faster, so I’m making some changes to the way…
Year-End Review
One of the things I love about an academic life is how many chances for reflection, renewal, and rebirth there are. Each term is a chance for rebirth, and we also get the rhythms of the calendar year. It is following…
Mr. Spock’s Strange Path—And Mine
When I woke up to Leonard Nimoy, Spock, Vulcan, Wrath of Khan, and #StarTrek trending on Twitter, I knew what had happened. Now there is a sentence that would have made no sense in those years when Spock was so important…
Manifesto(cean)
If I can wake up every morning and face the fallen world with an open heart, even if I know that it will hurt, If I can bring an open heart to a world in which educated people would rather…
Ten Things I’ve Learned about Majuro
The odyssey of my life has taken me to Majuro atoll, capitol of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in Micronesia. I am here to teach humanities at the College of the Marshall Islands. My office has an ocean view.…