Politics and Economics
Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward, “Supreme Court has Voted to Overturn Abortion Rights, Draft Opinion Shows.”
Roxane Gay, “It’s Time to Rage.”
Matt Gertz, “With Attack on Twitter, the Right Shows It Has Institutionalized Trump’s Corrupt Use of Government Power.”
Anthony Cuthbertson, “NFT Sales Plummet 92% as Market ‘Collapses.'”
David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, and Ephrat Livni, “Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic.”
Eric Budish, “The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Blockchain.”
Nuclear and Environmental
Chris Cameron, “Climate Activist Dies after Setting Himself on Fire at Supreme Court.”
Abrahm Lustgartn, “The Great Climate Migration.”
This spring semester at Hartwick College, I’m teaching two classes, ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing, as usual, and a brand new course, ENGL 352 Critical Game Studies. I’m especially excited about the latter, as this was a course I developed at the University of Pittsburgh in AY 2015-16 with the aid of a course development grant but that I have not had a chance to teach until now.
During another unconventional spring, I’m revisiting an introductory course I taught frequently at the University of Pittsburgh (ENGLIT 0500 Introduction to Critical Reading) and reprising two creative writing courses. The syllabi:
