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Pain as a Hallmark of Human Experience

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1934, a year after Hitler’s ascent to power, Ernst Jünger, a World War I storm trooper, published an essay rejecting liberal, bourgeois society’s embrace of security, ease, pleasure, and comfort. Some societies and cultures, she shows, esteem a stoic acceptance of pain.

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The New Generation Gap

Confessions of a Community College Dean

My friend’s story is filled with lessons about the fragility and perishability of those great awakenings that periodically arise and seek to transform American society. The ur musical of the Kennedy years, Camelot , ends on a poignant note that mirrors the arc of American society during the 1960s. Reeves has shown.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Encyclopedic museums, like the Met, occupy a very uneasy place in contemporary society. Yet as perhaps society’s highest profile cultural institutions, they’re extraordinarily vulnerable to criticism as Eurocentric, classist, and patriarchal relics of tainted wealth and colonial plunder.