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Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in Atlanta. She is organizing the Resistance to the Re-Education of America at
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Mary Grabar (Sep 27, 2010)
Finally, a Kennedy has come out to denounce, albeit in a very small way, one of the privileged professors who have worked, both inside and outside the classroom, on behalf of... more
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Mary Grabar (Sep 17, 2010)
“We are terrorizing ourselves.” So says Fawaz Gerges, professor at the London School of Economics. To him, someone who esteems himself capable of seeing beyond what... more
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Mary Grabar (Sep 13, 2010)
Howls of protest are coming from Los Angeles teachers whose evaluations on their effectiveness in raising student test scores have been published in the Los Angeles Times.But... more
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Mary Grabar (Sep 11, 2010)
I was probably one of the last people in the world to learn about the attack on September 11, 2001.
I was deep into revising my dissertation on Walker Percy for a... more
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Mary Grabar (Aug 16, 2010)
So you think that if you plunk down $200,000 for Junior’s education at an Ivy League school, rated in the top ten by U.S. News and World Report or the Princeton... more
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Mary Grabar (Jul 14, 2010)
I tell my college students to feel free to hate.
I try to explain to them that in the context of all the other freedoms of choice they have, like their “spiritual path,”... more
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Mary Grabar (Jul 04, 2010)
The slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass answered this question which serves as the title of the speech he gave on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. The Fourth... more
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Mary Grabar (Jun 23, 2010)
Author's note: Much of the mainstream media coverage of tea parties has been unfair and based on outright lies. But I have to give credit to my city’s... more
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Mary Grabar (Jun 14, 2010)
Greetings from the fourth congressional district in Georgia! You know where we are. We are represented by a Buddhist who worries that Guam will fall into the... more
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Mary Grabar (Jun 07, 2010)
I was shocked to learn that Al and Tipper Gore were going Splitsville and there was no other woman in the picture—no call girl, Argentinean divorcee, amateur videographer, or... more
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Mary Grabar (Mar 08, 2010)
Collaboration, or working in groups, is a favorite pedagogical strategy of hung-over graduate teaching assistants, soviet indoctrinators, educators with advanced degrees,... more