Author: Rufus F.

Hate working? There’s always welfare!

Cultural vibrancy- what is it good for?

Trigger warning! The New York Times reports about American undergrads pushing to have professors issue “trigger warnings” for great books that might be psychologically upsetting to students who have experienced trauma. Professors, a bit...

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 exaggerated.

New Dealer offered an explanation of why we all should care if cultural institutions go under. Now, Rufus explains why he cares.

For years now, the Corcoran Gallery in D.C. has found bold and innovative ways to shoot itself in the foot. Now, it’s over.

If you run into Rufus at a party, do not offer him blow.

Now, let us never speak of 2013 again. Clearly, the 13th year of a millennium is like the 13th floor of a building- leave it blank in the history books. The number of friends...

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 pathological but not in decline.

Rufus shares an article his great-grandfather wrote during a road trip through Fascist Italy with Ernest Hemingway in 1929.

I’m not the only one who Sinclair Lewis leaves a bit cold. Here’s a rant by Ernest Hemingway from a letter to my great-grandfather*:

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.