Another in an occasional series...  

Gossman's book is a lovely study of the cultural and intellectual milieu of the Swiss city of Basel in the second half of the nineteenth century, when its...

I have a long-standing interest in T.S.Eliot, at times bordering on obsession.  He's someone whose thinking I find enormously powerful. At times the racism and anti-semitism of his work (which is, I...

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...

Good morning all!  I was thinking about what I share on this blog, and I realized I have confined myself mostly to texts or issues that were already on-line--in other words, articles I found online...

Reading the Sunday papers today, and amidst a drizzle of despair, two articles got my attention, both by women of color, both about how the turbulence we're experiencing is not simply a matter of...

So sorry I've been silent.  It's been crazy around here.  But I've been storing stuff up, even if I haven't been sharing it with you all.  Here's a small down payment.

Intriguing...

Dammit, finals!  You're killing me here.  Hopefully later this week I'll be back in the saddle.  Sorry.  

Exploring the archaeological history of Nabataea.  

Elisabeth Sifton...

Finals!  Every year I forget how crazy they are.  A lot of stuff all at once.  Anyway; if any of you out there have some free time, here are some thought-provoking things to read:

In...