Blog Incurious Are you a person that has an answer for everything? Jemar Tisby, an American historian, wrote a meditation entitled “The…Rebecca KoerselmanOctober 3, 2022
Blog The Lord’s Army Some of those jingly jangly camp songs still pop into my head from time to time (this one, in the…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 8, 2022
Blog Getting the Side Eye While watching a reality show, I noticed a group of white women explain to the non-white woman in the group…Rebecca KoerselmanJune 13, 2022
Blog Memories of Combat What does Memorial Day mean to you?I have never served in the armed forces or participated in a war, but…Rebecca KoerselmanMay 30, 2022
Blog Would You Rather I Was a Robot? In 1972, Ira Levin published a short little book. It’s a dark satire of gender and what men and women…Rebecca KoerselmanMay 2, 2022
Blog On Suffering I’ve never taught about the Cold War at the same time that Russia invaded the Ukraine. Up until a few…Rebecca KoerselmanMarch 21, 2022
Blog What is So Threatening about Girls in Sport? What makes a good athlete? When I talk to coaches, they typically say something about being coachable. Hard working. A…Rebecca KoerselmanMarch 7, 2022
Blog “What Do you Burn…apart from Witches? More Witches!” In 1909, G.K. Chesterton wrote a response to a letter writer, concerned about fairy tales that exposed children to the…Rebecca KoerselmanFebruary 21, 2022
Blog A House Divided The chorus and lyrics of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” kept rattling around in my head this week.…Rebecca KoerselmanDecember 13, 2021
Blog Lunchroom Brawl To figure out how to interpret information, we need to source, contextualize, and corroborate. We consider people’s perspectives, biases, evidence,…Rebecca KoerselmanNovember 29, 2021