Category Archives: Education

Muddle about the Covington Affair

Posted on January 23, 2019 by M. Meo

This post contains my conclusion regarding the highly publicized encounter between Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, and a group of Covington High School students at the Lincoln Memorial a week or so ago. The incident has the same format, … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Free Speech, Global, Spiritual life | 2 Comments

We Can Try Our Best and Still Fail

Posted on September 16, 2017 by M. Meo

If we take the idea seriously, that the United States has not become an empire, but always, since its founding, has been an empire, we could be situated, I believe, better to evaluate its present position. If ever there is … Continue reading →

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What Transgender Means

Posted on July 28, 2017 by M. Meo

  Surely in writing this post, which is a highly personal meditation, I have to begin from the admission of my own lack of principled stance over time.  My opinions have changed and developed in the course of years. Today … Continue reading →

Posted in Bradley Manning, Cameron Whitten, Education, Elections, Friendship, Inequality, Oakland, Pacific Green Party, Spiritual life, Vali Balint | 17 Comments

Lessons from Colonialism

Posted on June 7, 2017 by M. Meo

While my two teenaged sons, Michael Kepler and John Dominic, were attending the much-anticipated Free Speech pro-Trump rally in front of City Hall this last weekend, getting onto the front page of the British newspaper the Guardian, I went to … Continue reading →

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Deaths from Despair

Posted on April 4, 2017 by M. Meo

Frequently in this space, a graph is more eloquent than anything I might have to say. Here is the graph from the most recent Deaton-Case study on the death rates, by age cohort, of white with only a high-school education … Continue reading →

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Let’s Unpack “the Personal Is Political”

Posted on January 11, 2017 by M. Meo

  This morning brought, on the usual disreputable websites, the appearance of another disapproving look, this time by a military historian, of the past two Presidential administrations.  Andrew Bracevich the author of America’s War for the Middle East: A Military History, in … Continue reading →

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Epistemological Comment

Posted on December 18, 2016 by M. Meo

In the last post I spoke of how the citizens of the United States are asked, by our intelligence services, to believe a whipped-up story of Russian hacking affecting the recent election.  The C.I.A., the White House, the Congress, and … Continue reading →

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Dropping the Pilots

Posted on November 26, 2016 by M. Meo

My title today is a reference to a famous political cartoon of the 1890s, showing the new German Emperor, Wilhelm II, getting rid of the famed chancellor who had fashioned, politically and militarily, the creation of the very Empire which … Continue reading →

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We Were Never Data-driven

Posted on October 31, 2016 by M. Meo

  I’m retired, after more than twenty years full-time teaching in high school, in Portland Public Schools.  During that time, and with greater and greater urgency toward the end of my tenure, we were continually beseeched, as teachers, to do … Continue reading →

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On the Streets of Eugene

Posted on October 22, 2016 by M. Meo

My son Michael Kepler Meo attended one of the Conversations on Race we have here in Portland, one in which the Albina Ministerial Alliance on police accountability and the Chief of Police, along with several of his deputies, appeared.  He … Continue reading →

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