I saw re-tweeted the other day the following assessment of President Trump—possibly a fragment as I did not follow up and read the article...

    I had the opportunity this week to revisit the first version of Don Giovanni I ever saw, Joseph Losey's 1979 filmed production, wi...

In my article last month The Great Epi-Twitter Meltdown  I touched on the origin of the recent riots and the recent years of intense liberal...

Doctors were probably the last group of professionals broadly trusted across all stripes of society. Now, there seems to be no group whom ev...

The endless cavalcade of fulminations to the contrary, Donald Trump, his rise to the presidency, and his presidency are not separately or al...

from The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power  by Gene Healy. p. 265 Over the course of the 20th...

I don't have much fondness for holidays, thinking as I do that what is worth commemorating by such a grand gesture is worth remembering...

Perhaps, "Carolus illuminatio mea" ? A few days ago I received via email and advertisement from Oxford University Press about...

I've been meaning to write about this matter for a while, but this article by Curtis Dozier of Vassar College in Eidolon , an "onl...

After wisdom and love, knowledge is perhaps the most sought after of human values. For such a precious thing, though, it is amazing what yo...

Yesterday afternoon I made a deal with my wife. We agreed that if we would leave the Democratic Convention on the television, for broadness...

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, there have been many conservative complaints about the Western response. We are not angry enough. W...

Without fail, at the close of every quarter and semester comes to the teacher the question, "Is there extra credit?" To this inqu...

aka a dialogue with myself ending in aporia I admire people who can write the same thing over and over again without stress or dissatisfac...

You know an academic just finished a book and is ready to start hocking it when they start publishing a lot of fun, fluffy articles that pe...

Welcome to Part Eight of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previou...

A strange quietude sets in during a president's second term. The opposition party falls silent, unable to excel their previous levels...

Thank You For Arguing. by Jay Heinrichs. Ch. 26 I don't know quite what to say about a chapter which begins with a leading quote t...