Opinion

“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into...

"You're excited," said my husband to me as I entered the car last night after my second Messiah rehearsal at...

TW has commented, correctly, that part of the reason I'm suited to academic administration is that I'm prone to repressing...

Young people are surprisingly absent from the health care debate, even though the stakes are high for them, write Laura Stark and her students.

What does ‘home for the holidays’ mean when you aren’t really sure where your home is located? Marc Auge’s book...

Warning : This blog post is entirely speculative and quite likely wrong in many (if not all) areas. Unfortunately, I...

Two weeks ago I reported on a proposal about to come up for vote in the University of Maryland senate...

The Savage Detectives and 2666 make literature feel like a matter of life and death. Scott McLemee interviews a prominent Bolaño-logist.