Selected Publications
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Restoring the Fairness Doctrine can’t prevent another Rush Limbaugh
Professor Heather Hendershot writes that “Limbaugh once boasted he had single-handedly ‘brought AM radio back from the dead.’ It was simultaneously one of the most accurate and least offensive comments he ever made.”
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings (2021)
Alan Lightman’s meditative essays on “the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between.”
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Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry
In the introduction to the edited volume Ludics, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon and Vassiliki Rapti write that “this book takes the bold position that play is an antidote to dark times. Rather than an escape hatch, it provides opportunity for discovery, connection, joy, care, and relational aesthetics—conditions that are central to worldliness, not extraneous to it.”
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Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education (2020)
A leader in educational technology separates truth from hype, explaining what tech can—and can’t—do to transform our classrooms.
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Heather Hendershot in the Washington Post: The 2020 party conventions are actually what the parties have always dreamed of
“Being online will give parties more control of how television viewers experience their conventions.”
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Money for Nothing (2020)
Thomas Levenson looks at “The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich”.
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Sea of Change
The future of the gulf will depend not just on the trajectory of ocean warming, but on whether people can rethink the way we use the environment, and adapt to a changing world.
