Since it’s apparently “Torture Awareness Week” here at the League, yet another — I’m on the road,...
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
“It’s a mistake to say this was about inflicting pain. These measures were about instilling a sense...
I was going to keep my damn mouth shut today, because, well, my attitude toward the news...
While we continue fighting the Civil War in the comments to my previous post, I want to...
I finished Volume II of Foote’s Civil War over the last two days of Passover, and returned...
A piece of the (Classical) historical record of which I had never heard, here (with a h/t...
I don’t normally take the time to point out that I find foreign policy statements at Commentary...
There’s something to be said for attempting to read Foote’s Civil War at the same time as...
In case you didn’t get enough on Conservative Critiques of Academia (CCOA) when Rufus was trying to...
About a week ago, Rufus responded to Jason’s comments on Strauss and philosophy-as-drug by saying: I’m not...
Our fantasy is that until the industrial era domesticated animals were treated decently. Maybe that’s true, and...
In the summer of 2006, Israel sent forces into Lebanon. The strike, while tactically successful, failed on...
So the book business is in for some very big changes that I suspect will move power...
(Note: this post uses terms and discusses situations that are borderline NSFW.) Strange things are happening at...
Joe Carter is arranging a second annual “Tournament of Novels.” I missed last year’s, somehow, but expect...
If, the argument goes, the world’s great powers, first and foremost of course the United States, in...
“Euripides was eaten by dogs; Aeschylus killed by a stone; Sappho leapt from a cliff. We know...
The New York Review of Books blog discusses all three versions of True Grit (but mainly the...
Rufus has, for some time now, guiding this little community through “The Canon,” and it seems we’ve...
I have no clue about the accuracy of this, and I have no idea how to feel...
