Caitlin Flanagan seems to think so: The second reason Metcalf was left flat by this line of reasoning is that he isn’t a woman, and to really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list...
Author: SEK
That, according to Victor Davis Hanson, is the contemporary version of "the good life." From a man who compulsively reminds anyone in earshot that "for 20 years I taught classics,".
(This be yet another one of them posts.) Fight Club, like its latter-day counterpart Inception, is the sum total of its wasted talent. Unlike Christopher Nolan, for whom Inceptionrepresented his personal white whale.
(This be yet another one of them posts.) Before analyzing a sequence from the "Van Gogh Job" episode of Leverage, I need to discuss a little something about color and continuity. First, you may be familiar with Vincent Van Gogh, but if not, all you need to...
And for my first post from the new desktop -- for which I can't thank you enough -- I present an image unworthy of it: Now if you'll excuse me,.
As those of you on Facebook already know, I'm in a situation similar to the Great Library Entanglement of October 2007. Point being, a number of you have written asking why.
...which is only appropriate, being that that's how we roll. (And for the record, expect much more from Yours Truly in the New Year, now that I'm not teaching seven.
Over at my place, an historian who-I-don't-know-why-he-talks-to-the-likes-of-me noted: Given the muck you slog through, I understand your appreciation of his rhetoric[.] That's true. But given the links in my previous.
Perhaps because I teach in one of the reddest counties in the country -- Orange -- but every quarter, I make it clear to my students that I'm not interested in indoctrinating them. I'm left of liberal in my politics, but when I'm in the...
I just don't know where I'm supposed to be running. I mean, I'm trying to understand the logic behind associating gays in the military with the War on Christmas,.
This post is about a book review I do not understand, but as it appeals to conservatives and I've committed myself to trying to understand conservatives, I'm going to try.