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@LATerynbrown Thx for not letting @RichardDawkins get away w/ saying the arts aren’t useful. Many see usefulness w/out a struggle @DCoffeen

— Sean Ziebarth (@MrZiebarth) November 30, 2013

The newspaper, or any media for that matter, is no longer a one-way communication. Not a new concept, I understand, but I’m still baffled by how many people, especially teachers, don’t find this useful or are unwilling to participate in its possibilities—

In one brief swoop I can engage a journalist, biologist, and rhetorician (of varying degrees of repute) in a conversation.

Here’s the fray I jumped into:

Richard Dawkins’ (what I find limited) appetite for wonder

vs.

Daniel Coffeen’s “Art as Argument”