As per usual, my post has little to do with pedagogy, except that today I discussed the content of the post in the class I teach.

That said, I found David Kirkpatrick's article for the New York Times Magazine compelling and insightful. Though I usually spend my time on NYTimes.com assiduously avoiding Stanley Fish's column, I was surprised to see my own home state the subject of...analysis? Scorn? Condescension? Such is the plight of a Kansan.

In my class today, what was supposed to be a discussion of the religion in Shakespeare's The Tempest turned into a discussion of religion in contemporary culture, with this article at the center of talk.

So there it is.