The Education of Oronte Churm

He was the best of us, as they say, but that’s not claiming much moral high ground. Back in what’s...

My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in...

Back at the end of February I set out to blog about Spring Essence, a collection of poems by an...

It was blessedly cool and bright today, and I walked over to campus, where I haven’t been in weeks. I...

Murray Sperber writes in Declining by Degrees that an “Academic Arms Race” began in the post-Sputnik boom-era for higher ed...

A devoted reader writes to ask, “What should I be reading this summer?” I too like reading lists. They’re the...

There is a heaven after all Studies find that fast food tastes best when eaten by tropical crows

We’ll be traveling for a few days, and I expect my posts to be intermittent next week, so here’s a...