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The Media and Teaching Students how to Evaluate Sources Post-Election

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A couple of days ago, a friend posted an article entitled “Bernie Sanders Could Replace President Trump with Little-Known Loophole.” Matt Masur, with the title and in the opening paragraph, positions The Huffington Post as factual and something that could happen. However, immediately following the first paragraph, he informs his audience that Sanders cannot replace Trump and that too many people have been getting false … Read More The Media and Teaching Students how to Evaluate Sources Post-Election

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Why We Teach: Literature and the Presidential Election

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In the Republic, Plato famously claims that there is a longstanding quarrel between philosophy and poetry, even stating that poets are nothing more than imitators and cannot relate truth to their audience, thus perverting them: “the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Nature (1836), … Read More Why We Teach: Literature and the Presidential Election

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