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Christopher Hitchens, with whose writing I have a bit of a love-hate relationship, has offered up a review in Vanity Fair of Peter Ackroyd’...

On November 29, at 12:47 P.M., I filed my doctoral dissertation. Blogging should resume after the holidays. Congratulations also go out to...

Via the Little Professor , I learned that the winners in the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest have been announced. I strongly recommend that yo...

Yep, we're back to the old, "If you don't toe the party line, we're gonna axe you!" motif so common in American academ...

...or is it Stupidly Charitable? Great post over at Weedon's Blog on how this interwebby thing allows us to stick our noses where noses...

I have been vacillating between two candidates of late: Ron Paul and Fred Thompson. (Bill Richardson is also still on my radar screen, but ...

Once upon a time, I was a college brat. I consumed alcohol (yes, underage), stayed up late partying, did not do my homework, and managed to...