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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).
Cultural vibrancy- what is it good for?
Trigger warning! The New York Times reports about American undergrads pushing to have professors issue “trigger warnings”...
Are stalkers just better suited to a decontextualized online culture than the rest of us?
Aesthetic tastes are subjective? Aesthetic tastes are objective? Okay, but what are we really doing?
The Pew Research Center tells us that reports of the death of the library have been greatly...
New Dealer offered an explanation of why we all should care if cultural institutions go under. Now,...
For years now, the Corcoran Gallery in D.C. has found bold and innovative ways to shoot itself...
Love, like death, cares nothing for scheduling.
Cinematic shorthand tends to make use of emblematic actions to visually represent certain eras: the 40s USO...
If you run into Rufus at a party, do not offer him blow.
Falling in love with someone is the most common thing in the world, yet it feels miraculous-...
Each year, New Year’s Eve brings to mind The Apartment, a film whose climax takes place on...
Now, let us never speak of 2013 again. Clearly, the 13th year of a millennium is like...
It might be hard, but academics can be reintegrated into society!
Rufus takes a stab at explaining why he finds the local culture where he lives to be...
Rufus shares an article his great-grandfather wrote during a road trip through Fascist Italy with Ernest Hemingway...
I’m not the only one who Sinclair Lewis leaves a bit cold. Here’s a rant by Ernest...
If the American middle class vanishes, will the American bourgeois mindset be lost forever?
Quite often cultural institutions choose to enter a state of flux and can't get out.
