I’m preparing to head back to France next Saturday, preparing a Napoleon course for the spring, and trying...
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).
Apologies if everyone’s seen it already, but this is perhaps the best response to arbitrary authority that...
Ozymandias is one of Shelley’s best known sonnets and was actually written in competition with his friend Horace Smith,...
“Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke“. Have a happy weekend!
Maximum rock’n’soul: If you ask me what the problem is with the radio today, I’d start with...
You think I’m a curmudgeon? Writing about “party schools” and their legacy students, Margaret Soltan ups the...
Seven Against Thebes is a war play that shows no war. Rivaling the Homeric epics in its...
“Librarians are the worst enemies of books there are.” He smiles sardonically when he says this, an...
I remember a bookstore cashier once flirting with me over my purchase of Catullus, whose poems she considered...
What a coincidence! Today, Mr. Brown and Mr. Carter debate the role of religious belief, or disbelief,...
A website that facilitates adultery is offering to pay a momentarily-famous adulterer $100,000 to promote adultery. (Insert...
When Hollaback NYC debuted their iPhone application, I mused here that they were soon going to push for...
Is there such a thing as a feel-good tragedy? Certainly this play, in which Oedipus who was...
Image via Wikipedia All three of the great Athenian tragedians (Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles) dealt with the...
Smoke Smoke has been the sign of human settlement ever since Prometheus’ defiant act, ever since people...
SUNY Albany has decided to cut costs by getting rid of their “underperforming” departments. First to go,...
Scott recently posted about the strikes in France, citing an NPR report from a Paris correspondent who...
Sophocles’s Women of Trachis presents us with all sorts of problems, which is likely why it’s rarely...
I’ve seen this video linked elsewhere in a condescending let’s-laugh-at-young-conservatives sort of way. And, admittedly, it’s cringeworthy....
One of the real mixed blessings of modern warfare has been that improvements in medical technologies have...
