September 2020 - CONTINGENT

Paper Trails and Primary Sources

A first-time biographer approaches writing the first biography–of her great-grandfather.

It can be hard to know what the founders intended when they didn’t know, either.

“Freak” is a complicated word.

Finding sustenance in radical hope—and in each other.

My agency in choosing modes of expression must extend to my students.

What is the purpose of education? Is it just to fill jobs with skilled workers?

Just as Gannon calls for seeing students as humans we can trust, we also need to humanize and trust adjuncts.

The book is a call to arms, and more necessary than ever.

The greatest strength of the new PBS documentary is its desire to inform contemporary debates. But this may also be one of its weaknesses.

“No one listens unless we tell a good story, so we try to tell good stories.”