Introduction I’ve begun attending monthly meetings of Socrates Café at the South Portland Library. Socrates Café is a gathering of citizens who get together by choice to discuss the big questions of life. Methods drawn from the book, Socrates Café, written by the program’s founder, Christopher Phillips, are used to guide discussion. The example of... Continue Reading →
Check out an experience of mine and discover whether you too find it delightfully therapeutic. Sit in for an hour on a Civil War history class with Dr. David Blight of Yale University. It’s free. All twenty-seven lectures of a course Blight taught on The Civil War and Reconstruction in 2008 are available on the... Continue Reading →
In a previous entry (Happy Valley - The Documentary Part 1.), four conclusions are presented about the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case at Penn State University as background for viewing Happy Valley, the documentary produced in 2014 about the scandal by filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev. To summarize: Sandusky is a justly convicted pedophile; his modus operandi... Continue Reading →
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