Sitemap - 2022 - All Things Rhapsodical
The Importance of Singing Happy Songs
Colleges Helped Cause the Enrollment Crash
Wokeism and the Destruction of American Education
A Rare Exception to the NPR Woke Regime
The Saturday/Sunday Roundabout
The White Privilege "Research" Racket
Slivers and Slices for Venus Day
George Floyd and the Intellectuals
On the Social Science of Race and the Question of "What is a University for?"
The Progressive Worldview Destroys Cities
More on Marxism, Wokeism, and What They Do and Don't Have in Common
The Children of the 14th of July
A Guide to Woke...but not to Nietzsche
A Few of the Great Musicians With Whom You Should Never Have Lunch
_The Opposition_ and What They Opposed
Those Juggling Fire and Those in the Path of Hurricanes
Book Review/YouTube Bach Wednesday
Bits and Pieces for Frigg's Day
If you consult only one thing on Omicron BA.4/BA.5 and the bivalent vaccines...
On Eric Voegelin's "Ersatz Religion"
9/11, United Flight 93, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania
College First Year Reading Program: Reading (and Complex Thinking) Not Required
Fragments from a Tuesday that should have been a Monday
Wokeism as godless, anti-ascetic neo-Puritanism
On Donald Trump, Osama bin Laden, and Sam Harris
Ten miles along the peripatetic way
Cormac McCarthy, conservative novelist
The Ongoing Woke Self-Destruction of Higher Education
Latest on UPenn Law's effort to purge Amy Wax
A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen in Oregon
Postmodernism, Criminality, and Madness
A Boat to Japan, a Dream, and Herzog, Flaubert, and Stravinsky
Baudelaire, a Mexican saying, and some other things
The Passing of Todd Gitlin and Lessons Political and Spiritual
The Harp, the Void, the Promise
La Marseillaise as reactionary nationalism
Annoying or hilarious things your child does
Keeping the CRT critique honest
Literary Accounts of Academic Wokeness
A Few Random Things for Your Monday
The Dismal Science of Human Nature
On Cultural Marxism, the Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory?
Lamentation in Chiapas (cont.)
Is the death penalty ever justified?
The Moral Tales of _The Ghost of Tom Joad_
Against the determinism of the sociologists
The principles of Anton Chigurh
Glenn Loury interview, Part II
Antonio Gramsci's odd place in the minds of the American bourgeois literati
On Genes, Free Will, and Altruism
"It finally is a matter of love"
On Racial Reconciliation II: My conversations with Gerald
On Racial Reconciliation, Part I
Fact check: Turns out violence is not always wrong and it can solve some problems
The steady, menacing tick of the clock
On "Sweden as a COVID success story"
"Malice at the Palace" revisited
On Christopher Hitchens, a decade after his death
Some thoughts on the war in Ukraine
A brief ride through the evening redness in the West
Great political theorists visit my class
In defense of "boring lectures"
Thoughts on someone buried outside a little church in a German village
On the dentist’s chair with a radio hit of 1978 in his ears
We read a bit about suicide last week in the Faces of Death course.
Three beautiful voices from the wondrous 1970s
More mean-spirited, hateful youth bashing
On the importance of the good-enough marriage and how we are losing it
Writing about music: _Tous les matins du monde_ and Pascal Quignard
Land Acknowledgments and "Toxic Environments"
Students wearing shorts in February in central Pennsylvania
Pride and the end of tolerance
_Blood Meridian_ and professors of English
Black History Month: Where is Phillis Wheatley?
Endgame: make all communication impossible
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson says incoherent things a lot
Very scattered thoughts on The Beatles
For the benefit of new subscribers
Long piece on COVID from almost 2 years ago
Run from her, as fast as you can
Reflecting (already) on COVID, Omicron, etc.