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Magdalena Kay

Magdalena Kay is an associate professor of English at the University of Victoria.

A New Course

A New Course

Universities face problems that Christopher Lasch identified 34 years ago. Has the time come to fix them?

by Magdalena Kay | Friday, March 01, 2013
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Fathers and Sons

by James McConkey

“Could we have been better parents?” At 87, Cornell emeritus professor James McConkey reflects on the inadvertent ways that parents—especially fathers—shape their children. “Most parents don’t want their children to suffer the kind of grief inflicted on them by their own parents,” he says in this essay from our Spring 2008 issue. “By saving them from that, though, they may inflict upon their children difficulties of another kind.” As the father to three sons, McConkey is acutely aware of how his relationship with his own father informed his relationship with his children. His essay “What Kind of Father Am I?” is a meditation on aging, parenthood, and the bond between fathers and sons.