Snobs we will always have with us. When Hillary Clinton called the white working class in the Rust Belt “the…
I have just finished reading the latest book by a man with gray hair, almost snow white, perhaps snow with…
In 1981-82, my third year as a graduate student in English at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I shared…
According to recent reports, if you are a student at the University of Nottingham and you are going to sign…
Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of…
Ethik und Ästhetik sind Eins. “Ethics and aesthetics are one,” or so the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein asserted in his…
There’s a sage line in the 1972 Western classic, Jeremiah Johnson, written by the great John Milius. An old mountain…
This week at Thales College, my students encountered T. S. Eliot’s broken epic of social, spiritual, and intellectual fragmentation, The…
This semester at Thales College, I am teaching a survey course focusing on literature, most of it English poetry, from…
