Tom McBride
Tom McBride is co-author of the annual Beloit College Mindset List.
He is a specialist in Shakespeare. For 42 years he taught at Beloit, where he won an award for excellence in teaching. He also coordinated the Mackey Distinguished Writers' Program and the First Year Initiatives Program.
He has published both critical essays and creative non-fiction in journals as diverse as Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Two Cities and The Common Review.
He co-authored, with Ron Nief, The Mindset Lists of American History (Wiley, 2011) and The Mindset List of the Obscure (Sourcebooks, 2014).
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Tom McBride contends that sometimes, caring too much can HURT democracy. Let him explain... -
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Tom McBride is not a fan of the moon. But the sun is another matter. -
Tom McBride wonders why nature can't seem to make up its mind. -
Tom McBride knows his world would be a little better with a lot more Taylor Swift in it. So he says. -
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Sure, you can learn a lot from a big bird — and not just the one on Sesame Street, according to Tom McBride. -
How one responds to ordinary unhappiness, says Tom McBride, separates the Macbeths from the Willie Nelsons. -
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As a kid, Tom McBride got a horse of his own. Nevermind that it was on a broomstick.
