Theoretical Frameworks
For the past few months, like so many others, I have been reflecting on this whole COVID experience and trying to make sense of it, more specifically, what is the point of it all? When I get the answer, I’ll…
Month August 2020
Human Kindness
Is Human kindness a weapon in electoral conflict? I used to scoff at American’s focus on the character of the individual politician in preference to their policy. Since Trump, my views have changed. It appears, from personal observation, that regardless…
Monumental Tensions
“Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803–1882) was a Canadian Methodist minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario.” (Wiki,ER) Ryerson helped found several institutions, which later evolved into ones known today: the Royal Ontario Museum; Victoria College as part of the University…
What’s in a statue?
“We may recognize in the legendary Alfred the product of many hundreds of years of English history, and indeed it is this that gives the legend its particular and abiding interest [4,356].” The statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester,…
American Exceptionalism
Exceptionalism is the perception or belief that a species, country, society, institution, movement, individual, or time period is “exceptional” (i.e., unusual or extraordinary). The term carries the implication, whether or not specified, that the referent is superior in some way.…