Wow. It’s hard to believe it’s really been a month since I posted anything here, but, well, on the other hand, I have been pretty busy. I’m in Colorado at the moment. That begins to point toward the reasons for my quiet. My month of June was greatly discombobulated by …
David Brooks, who writes for the New York Times, has been one of my favorite social and political commentators for quite some time. I first came across him on PBS’s wonderful Newshour, where in political commentary he’s the conservative counterpart to the liberal Mark Shields. One of the things I’ve …
Watching the political debate ranting unfolding in our country, in which people of all stripes refuse to consider alternative positions — and certainly not their own — in any critical way, I’ve been reminded of how we all need to remember the dangers of indoctrination in, well, anything. It leads …
On Spring Break around here, and here are the things I’m up to: Enjoying a bit of quality time with the family after too long with my head buried in Brunanburh. Writing Tolkien lectures and creating PowerPoints. I’m trying to get ahead. Trying to start exercising again now that my …
With all the illness hereabouts — I was struck down with the norovirus after all — and quite a bit of backlogged grading to slog through, I’m rather tardy in relaying the fact that the Brunanburh Casebook is out of my hands. The book clocked in at over 440 pages …