Selections from the approximately two million words I've written for classroom handouts over 45 years of college teaching.
For twenty years, I taught in an honors program called “Philosophy, Politics, and the Public." I and a series of colleagues taught the sophomore block where we got the students involved in electoral campaigns (in the fall) and legislative politics (in the spring). I taught a series of topics on political history, civic culture, political philosophy, public experience and the like. As the first fall meeting approached, I tried to find some engaging articles just get them engaged and get the ball rolling. This post is the result of serendipity. *The New York Review of Books *(which I've been reading since my mentor Christopher Lasch introduced me to it 1975) just happened to have reviews of a book about Elon Musk and Pope Francis's Laudato Si'. The juxtaposition struck me as odd and provocative and I wrote this handout for the first day of class. Rereading it, i would have thought I was more critical of Musk. Surely I would be today.