Adam Goldstein and Katie Sabo
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Altieri, a longtime Latin teacher at Irvine's Woodbridge High School, interviewed on the virtues of learning a dead language.
As capitalist economies falter, our resident B.A. in Linguistics talks about two of the terms we use to describe hard times.
Why we all need to learn more economics.
The college essay and America’s education unease
Free Markets and Religious Fervor Are What's Hot
Sara Lafleur-Vetter
Daniel Denvir
In April 2008, a New York Times special investigation revealed that the Pentagon, in coordination with the Bush administration, "courted a troop of retired military men to serve as trained PR agents for the White House on major broadcast outlets." In exchange for their good behavior, they received special briefings and political access for the defense contractors who they represented.
In Eagle Point, Oregon, the houses have wheels, the husbands are unfaithful and the land is on its way to sub-development. And because nothing lasts, time moves faster here; methamphetamine addictions are abundant, cars speed, teenagers are parents and the middle aged are elderly. Young men leave for Iraq, old men rarely leave their bar stools and lonely wives and mothers invite strangers into their homes.
What follows isn’t some facile analysis of everything wrongheaded in the Manifest Destiny ad. What concerns me here is the weird glimpse that radio spots offer into the collective id of their target audience, at least as conceived by the people buying and selling airtime.
