Thinking about Horowitz’s “Constituting Consciousness”
I wrote this post as one that would be direct conversation with Maya’s recent blog post “Constituting Consciousness” She brings up a lot of really interesting ideas that I think I have some experience...
View Article“When you assume….you make and ASS out of U and ME”
Coming into Vassar as a freshman I had no idea what concepts like heteornormativity, cultural appropriation, white privilege, and gender binary meant, as a suburban Ohio girl my school did not prepare...
View ArticleZakaria and Huntington
Like some of my classmates, I found The Post-American World to be rife with oversimplifications and hollow reasoning, especially for a book with such grand ambition. Fareed Zakaria’s populist stylistic...
View ArticleSelf-Healing from Imperialism
What happens when two of the world’s most rapidly developing and most populated nations rework capitalism so that it fits with their political and cultural identities? Zakaria makes the case that this...
View ArticleToo Shallow
In The Post American World, Fareed Zakaria suggests that the coming century will mark the decentralization of American hegemony, in turn giving way to “the rise of the rest.” While I agree with this...
View ArticleEducation as our saving grace?
In The Post-American World, I felt that Zakaria tried to talk about everything and in so doing, ended up talking about nothing. Obviously, trying to tackle a topic as wide as the current state of...
View ArticleIncome Inequality and Education in the US
The United States is ranked 44th out of 86 countries on income inequality. This is well below the ranks of other major countries in Europe such as Germany and France (Fisher, 2013). Income inequality...
View ArticleWhat to do…
This economic trend we have seen of late is in no way surprising with regard to the data presented in the articles. I think the Occupy Wall Street movement had a good message and could have had a lot...
View ArticleVassar Administration=the “West”
Having a class discussion about the equal opportunity at Vassar while reading The Post-American World interest to compare the administration of institutions such as Vassar to leading powers of the...
View ArticleNatural
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9QChJYDqE Re: Professor Dunbar’s story about being praised for going “natural” The rest of the post is here:...
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