Michael Carey
Michael Carey: Old college test raises education questions
"Here is your test," said professor Grant, as he handed copies of a quiz to sleepy Ithaca College sophomores. It was barely 8 a.m., a little early for medieval philosophy. Nevertheless, I turned my eyes to Dr. Grant's questions and frowned while reading "Saint Bonaventura, arguing for the knowability...
Michael Carey
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MICHAEL CAREY
Michael Carey: A shock of recognition, a feeling of loss
A couple weeks ago, a friend in Fairbanks invited me to look at a collection of color photographs the Pioneers of Alaska obtained. The 500 photos originally were slides but had been computerized.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Michael Carey: Cox and Vernon have predecessors
Michael Carey recounts a tale of two reactions at Fairbanks militiamen's sentencing -- one contrition and tears, the other a profanity-laced rant, and reflects on the history of American extremism.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Michael Carey: The night the boys' favorite target fired back
Michael Carey recounts how the man who lived behind his house in Fairbanks went from favorite target of mischievous boys to gun-totin' menace.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Michael Carey: Four-star affairs? Where's Norman Mailer?
Columnist Michael sees a perfect opportunity for the late Norman Mailer to write about the affair of Gen. David Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Michael Carey: Nation says no to GOP; Alaska says yes
Columnist Michael Carey says that the election beached GOP true believers who thought they were riding the wave of history -- except in Alaska, where the hard right rules.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Grames' death offers reminder to accept flaws of characters
John George James Grames, who lived a stream of consciousness life, died in Bellingham, Wash., last week. He was 75.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Citizenship and voting must be ingrained from family tradition
Turnout in the primary election was less than 25 percent. There are several obvious reasons why Alaskans didn't show up.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Rite of passage buffers leap to future
A couple days ago, I had breakfast with a young man about to leave for his freshman year in college. He was preparing to depart the following morning and appeared excited but uncertain. The word "college," when he used it, seemed to have a question mark after it.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Graves have their own way of touching us
My friend Jim Rogers explains the psychological value of graves to the living this way. "A grave is a place to walk to and a place to walk away from." This is concise way of saying -- a place to pay tribute to the dead, then return to the living.
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MICHAEL CAREY
Vogler could have taught militiamen a few things
Sitting in federal court watching the militiaman trial, I wondered: What advice would Alaska Independence Party founder Joe Vogler have had for the three Fairbanksans charged with conspiring to kill federal officials?
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