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Author: Erik Loomis

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Letters of Recommendation

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On April 28, 2021
Among the many things that make no sense in the world of the academy is the letter of recommendation. What do they possibly show? I've been on the hiring side of job searches three times now and....every letter of recommendation is almost exactly the same....
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Saving Superfund

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On April 27, 2021
Superfund one of the greatest pieces of the Carter administration. Actually forcing companies to pay up for their legacy of pollution was just what the doctor ordered. It worked great. And then Gingrich came along and took advantage of the growing corporate obsequiousness of Republicans...
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The Sanger Problem

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On April 27, 2021
Margaret Sanger is truly one of the great Americans, but one with just one tiny problem........her embrace of eugenics. This like dealing with Lyndon Johnson, who looks great until you remember that small issue of the Vietnam War. Now, eugenics was a complex movement and...
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Conflicted Landscapes

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On April 26, 2021
David Nye is one of our top historians of technology and he has a new book out on American landscapes and the greater political division over them. This is a rather lengthy excerpt that I found really quite interesting. One of the stories of the...
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