Just because today's a special day.  Not because I'm engaged in New Year's cleaning, or anything. 

Wow. Forget Triumph of the Will--it's the Hallmark Christmas movie that is the most...

This piece, from the summer, still strikes me as very apt for the New Year.

Fashionable fatalism is an easy thing for an academic to engage in, because we are educated to have critical minds...

Happy New Year!  A pretty oblique post to reality today.  

Up through the early twentieth century, Greek and Latin classics as a discipline was understood in a fundamentally textual way.  Texts...