Archive for February 23rd, 2010

Opinion: The parallel between language and agriculture

Karen Kovaka – Words and gardens: two things which, perhaps, you would never have thought to put together. But, suppose they have a lot in common. Suppose that words and gardens, speaking and farming, land and language, are connected to each other and to humans in strange and powerful ways. What difference would it make?

Opinion: History being written before it happens

Michael Mullin – When it is all said and done, history has a way of writing itself. For the last couple weeks, the incessant drone of the relatively uneducated were proclaiming Peyton Manning as perhaps — wait for it — “the Greatest of All Time.” This label, innocuous to some (hysterical to me), was dependent