Archive - All Things Rhapsodical

The Other's Death and Yours

An excerpt from something longer

Jul 16 •

Alexander Riley

July 12, 1998: France 3, Brazil 0

My first World Cup final, among other things

Jul 12 •

Alexander Riley

The Immoral Lie of "Metaracism"

A review of another risibly anemic recent effort to defend the empty concept of structural racism

Jul 7 •

Alexander Riley

Tenure Track In Higher Ed Is Going Extinct

[Zebras and their shadows]

Jul 1 •

Alexander Riley

June 2025

The Art The New Yorker Thinks You Ought To Enjoy

Part of my ongoing research project on what the elite leftosphere thinks the rest of us might find interesting, plus some additional observations about…

Jun 27 •

Alexander Riley

Bureaucratic Masters

And a few other things besides...

Jun 17 •

Alexander Riley

A Bunch of Images I Like

Putting them here because my pile of them is getting too large and I want to share

Jun 10 •

Alexander Riley

The Decline of Trust

And a bunch of extraneous matter

Jun 6 •

Alexander Riley

May 2025

[A lovely painting encountered a few weeks ago on the wall of a local Mexican restaurant]

May 27 •

Alexander Riley

The MAGA Springsteen

Up today at the Chronicles site.

May 23 •

Alexander Riley

The Benefits of DEI? Not So Much...

[Why don’t they just forget about the ladders and the crude effort to re-engineer the natural shape of the tree and instead climb the tree to get at the…

May 22 •

Alexander Riley

Houellebecq's Final Novel?

A review of that one and one other by MH

May 17 •

Alexander Riley

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