Marx and Metaphors
I am going to say one word to you, and that word will change the entire way that you are looking at the material we are reading for class this…
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August 6, 2019
The Abduction of Professor X
Never was the tension between teaching and tenure so visible to me as in those moments, locked in an undergraduate apartment, as the reels of the tape recorder turned, and…
July 22, 2019
A Game of Chess
I have never been very proficient at the art of chess. The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the…
July 8, 2019
Decoding Art Anxiety
Arranging Victories for Students Confronted with images like many of those on this page, some students are as confused as I was by the equations of Professor Brown. But in…
May 24, 2019
Confessions of a D Student (Part 1)
If there is a hero to this story, it is David Sunquist, a young high school math teacher, who volunteered in the spring of 1962 to teach a handful of…
April 7, 2019