To bravely speak: an essay review of Jean Anyon's Marx and Education

This peer reviewed Essay was the first review of Jean Anyon's book Marx and Education. The Essay also serves as a companion to the book, expanding upon Marxist concepts found in the book in more detail, and introducing concepts that where not discussed in the book given the audience for which it was written

More Mysteries, or, Why We Still Come to Church Anyway

(Excerpt) Two years ago, on a brilliantly sunny day in February, I spoke to a small session of this Institute on the subject of preaching. In an address entitled Behold I Tell You a Mystery: We Shall Not All Sleep, I attempted to initiate a discourse with clergy about preaching, in which the lay voice was not simply a mumbled sentence of praise or criticism given at the church door on Sunday morning, but was instead a participant in a more fully engaged meeting of minds and hearts. I commented at the outset on my claims to a purely lay status, since as far as I knew there had been no clergy in my family since the Civil War. However, I must stand corrected on that point. Mrs. Henrietta Stemmler, now 87 and a resident of Ft. Wayne, has written to tell me that as my grandmother\u27s cousin, she wishes to assure me that one of her sister\u27s grandsons is a Lutheran pastor in Texas, and so I do have a clergy relative after all. I was pretty well floored by this; revelations about one\u27s family background have a way of reordering the way you look at the world--witness Tarzan, Tom Jones, Oedipus, Moll Flanders and so on. So I come before you this time somewhat humbled from my previously proud, purely lay position. I am closer to being one with the clergy, however hard that is to swallow, and thus I cannot take the high and mighty tone that some people said characterized my last talk

Opacified fibrous thermal insulation

Lightweight, opacified, glass fiber batting for high temperature insulation in cryogenic tanks has lower apparent thermal conductivity than untreated insulations. Decrease results from impeding the transmission of radiant energy without increasing the solid conductance of the material

FGF signaling controls somite boundary position and regulates segmentation clock control of spatiotemporal Hox gene activation

AbstractVertebrate segmentation requires a molecular oscillator, the segmentation clock, acting in presomitic mesoderm (PSM) cells to set the pace at which segmental boundaries are laid down. However, the signals that position each boundary remain unclear. Here, we report that FGF8 which is expressed in the posterior PSM, generates a moving wavefront at which level both segment boundary position and axial identity become determined. Furthermore, by manipulating boundary position in the chick embryo, we show that Hox gene expression is maintained in the appropriately numbered somite rather than at an absolute axial position. These results implicate FGF8 in ensuring tight coordination of the segmentation process and spatiotemporal Hox gene activation

On being holier-than-thou: a critique of Curry Malott's "Pseudo-Marxism and the reformist retreat from revolution"

In the May 2011 edition of this journal, Curry Malott contributed an essay review of Jean Anyon‘s Marx and Education (2011). I would summarize Mallot‘s critiques of her book as follows: (1) she didn‘t write the book that he wanted her to write, (2) she didn‘t cite the authors that he wanted her to cite, and (3) her work is anti-Marxist because her take on the literature isn‘t identical to his. While his intention was to expose her book as undermining Marxist analysis even as she sought to support it, Malott‘s essay is actually more successful as an example of the dangers of sectarianism and of the tendency on the Left to purge those viewed as not sufficiently conforming to orthodoxy in their positions. By examining the problems in his essay I hope to provide a cautionary tale that may encourage Malott, and others, to remember the praxis in revolution