Patty Limerick

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on August 20, 2016 By Patty Limerick I would like to announce the creation of Partners for Posterity, a coalition of groups that have taken up the great cause of long-term thinking. Asking Americans to include, in their decisions...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on July 16, 2016 By Patty Limerick The recent killings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas have turned us all into amateur theologians and moral philosophers, presenting us with questions we could not evade or dismiss: How can human beings...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on June 17, 2016 By Patty Limerick Let’s say that you have gone to hear Gov. John Hickenlooper talk about his recently published autobiography, “The Opposite of Woe.” And then woe suddenly becomes your own destiny, and all you...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on May 12, 2016 By Patty Limerick In a universe very distant from the one I inhabit, parents and teachers collide and clash. Helicopter parents make frequent landings, complaining that unfair standards and demands have been imposed on their...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on April 15, 2016 By Patty Limerick As the madcap exercise called “the presidential campaign” lurches along, a vexing question haunts me: How, in the wild political scene of 2016, can young people retain a positive opinion of their...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on March 18, 2016 By Patty Limerick After a recent visit to our nation’s capital, I came home with restored hope for my nation. There’s a tribute you don’t hear every day. In a once-common pairing of actions that...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on January 16, 2016 By Patty Limerick I never wanted to move to Colorado. As the newly appointed Colorado state historian, I aim to earn a high ranking for the celebrated virtues of transparency and full disclosure. In the...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on December 18, 2015 By Patty Limerick Thirty years ago, designing and conducting an innovative research project, I established myself as a founder and pacesetter in the field of Jerk Studies, an area of expertise that gains relevance every...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on November 13, 2015 By Patty Limerick The University of Colorado at Boulder has given an honorary Ph.D. to a contentious public figure with a habit of using words like “stupidity,” “idiocy,” and “imbecility” to characterize his opponents’ positions...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on October 16, 2015 By Patty Limerick Even though time travel is impossible, we are sometimes picked up and abruptly deposited in the past. “Nearly all of the Indians in this area,” a well-intentioned guide informed our group, “died...