What university ephemera can tell us about how academia sees itself.
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
Thoughts on the work we do and how little it says about us.
May the Force not be against you.
What do you say to your young aspiring writer friend who just wrote The Sun Also Rises?
Don't let them tell you otherwise- Canadians did something important yesterday.
yours truly rereads Nietzsche and wonders if we suffer from too much or too little historical awareness...
"With quiet men, it’s easy to forget that they have the same endless monologue of doubt and...
Sad serendipity given our recent documentary-film-as-art discussion
Rufus returns after a long summer of overwork to gripe about recent gripe-u-mentaries and rhapsodize on a...
In the late 50s, Goodyear gave it a try.
Continuing with our discussion of the market-driven university, we discuss whether the right and the left can...
An old friend of the site’s best friend needs medical support and it probably won’t be cheap.
Here’s “What Can this Lost Generation Learn from the Last One?” a piece I wrote for The...
A passionate discussion with critical theorist, writer, academic, and teacher Henry Giroux about his book "Neoliberalism's War...
Certainly, police work is stressful and dangerous. So is being arrested. Police officers need to experience being...
would want to be an academic at this point.
But, if that’s too slow, it needs the muscle of the state to get results.
When we discussed Laura Kipnis’s article on “sexual paranoia” in academia here, most thought she was off...
The punk activist scene in DC of the heady 80s and 90s is apparently inspirational to many...
A note scribbled in the margin of the internet.
