Steve Llano

My social media feed has been filled with stories and images of young people, mostly women, who are spending their own time and money to head across the country and canvas for Elizabeth Warren.

After teaching online now for over half of a semester, I've noticed something seriously missing from the online educational experience.

A campus is an extremely important element of college pedagogy. We don't consider everything that it does for us when we are there.

It's August. I'm in that mode of excitement mixed with anxiety as I start to prepare to teach. This often involves gathering up a lot of scraps of paper, things I've saved into MS OneNote and Google Keep, and reviewing the notes I took at the end of last term.

The horrific mass shootings of the past couple of days are about to enter the well-known cycle of public discourse meant to account for their existence. People have to talk about these events to make sense of them, to account for why they happened, and to make sense of them—that is, to make sure they do not disrupt the normal order of the country. As usual, video games and the internet are taking a lot of the blame. But something is different this time.