The left proves brave enough to question its own assumptions on the issues that truly matter.
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).
Today, Salon is reprinting the piece we ran about universities being run like a business.
Reflecting on four decades of social change and wondering if societies can change their norms without creating...
Another dispatch on living in a short-term, transient "society".
Why college tuition costs so much, once again.
Going to grad school?!! Well... we all do crazy things sometimes!
A powerful account of an invasion in Mesopotamia roughly 4,000 years ago that should be read and...
An academic friend linked to this article on academic sex codes, which he said is so truthfully...
Of the other men killing time in the public library along with myself.
A strange and lurid tale from ancient Mesopotamia that ultimately tells us that all men must die.
In the beginning, there was chaos and then there was sex. Then came war.
From Digital Culture & Education: “Fedora Shaming as Discursive Activism“
Canon-blogging starts again with an ancient Sumerian take on the age-old fight between birds and fish. Who...
As Gertrude Stein once told a young writer- Begin again and concentrate.
Rufus looks at the things that lie beneath the surface of images.
A look at Portugal's national epic and how poets create warriors to supply them with material.
Damn you “comments closed”! Let me now abuse my power to respond to some comments from my...
When a Brooklyn newspaperman met an ultra-nationalist Italian military crusader and made fun of his scalp.
My family consists of working class whites, so of course they always vote for Republicans.
I did my research in France and still have dear friends there, so this picture that un...
