Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 10:39 am
Social scientists across their different disciplines have
shared an enduring observation. They have found that the
people who apply methods in real settings to understand
social life find more elucidation of the inquiry process
than those who seriously analyze the same but without
adequate field application.
We learn best by engaging
people in the locations that embody our questions -
communities on the ground - to not only glean information
from our subjects but also to address people’s needs.
Learning by doing provides the context to achieve our
educational potential as well as humanity’s
growth.
I find myself getting angrier by the day and wanting to give the extremists, the alt-WRONG, the Trumpistas, the people who think the road to greatness is
There’s been much news about whether Trump would use force or declare martial law to stay in office. Trump bumped that off the news by declaring he wouldn
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A recent email from Tom Huf struck me as a clear and succinct statement about the problem with American policy toward Iran. Tom, like my wife and myself, was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran, and follows developments in Iran closely. Here’s what he wrote:
I’ve been thinking recently that the whole US premise – even among non-Trumpians – of trying to isolate and punish Iran and dump onto Iran the ills of the region[,] is the best way to make the situation worse. Have we not learned the lessons of the Treaty of Versailles? Isolation, blame mongering, and punitive financial payment regimes did not work out so well after punishing Germany in 1919. Pretending that containing and even diminishing Iran will yield good results is absurd. Unreality, unbalanced dealing, and ignoring 80 million people injects instability and can only end badly.