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- Educated Imagination — A blog about the Prof's hero, Northrop Frye
- Embedded Theologian — Politics, Culture, Eclectica
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- Far Side of the World — A Mondovillian Heads to Malaysia
- Fear and Loathing in Georgetown (FLG)
- Fencing Bear at Prayer
- Fenster Moop — A Quirky Edublogger
- Free Thoughts — Libertarianism.org's blog
- G. Ross Key — The guy who helped me stay fairly sane in my M.A. program
- Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog
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- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
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- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
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- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
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- New and Improved Me — A former student who claims to have minored in Mondoism. See the damage I've done.
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- New Criterion
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- Northward Contrail
- NRO's The Corner
- Otto's Random Thoughts — Frequent Commenter J. Otto Pohl's Blog
- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
- Peter's Power Pop
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- Ricki's Rants and Rambles — Another EduBlogger, Working the Science Side of the Street.
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- Six Meat Buffet — Very nice, even if they are UT fans
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- The Berries are GO! — My band's blog.
- The Blog that Was Thursday
- The Happy Serf — A Former Neighbor's Perspective
- The Misadventures of Katie — a bass-playing Clash fan and former student
- The Port Stands At Your Elbow
- Themes
- Thoughts from the Corner Office
- Thoughts Inserted Here — A former advisee considers things.
- Tim Kowal at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- Transterrestrial Musings — A dextrospheric space blog
- University Diaries
- Unlocked Wordhoard — Medieval stuff
- What's Wrong With the World
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
For Memorial Day
One of my favorite poems, by my favorite poet. Archibald MacLeish was an ambulance driver and artilleryman in World War I, and his brother, a naval aviator, was killed in 1918. This poem appeared in MacLeish’s collection Streets in the … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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Five Minutes in the 15th Century
Today was the 175th anniversary of the founding of the congregation I attend, and it was also Youth Sunday. This meant that the service was conducted by the middle and high school kids (overseen by the adult “youth leaders”), complete … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family, Literature, Medievalia
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Subjecting Progressivism to Scruton-y
In the course of my ongoing debates with Maj. Mad Dog, I recently asked him, “If you see your cause as progressive (even Progressive), what are you progressing toward? How will you know when you get there?” His usual response … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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The Men Who Would Be Ruled
A line I’ve heard tossed around a lot is that the blowout and oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico is “Obama’s Katrina.” I’m inclined to agree, but not in the direction in which those folks are going. Actually, I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Medievalia, Politics
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Pink-Collar Professoriate
A blurb in the Chronicle of Higher Ed today mentions a Dept. of Education study’s report that if current trends continue, female college students will make up 60% of the undergrad population by 2019. Similar gender breakdowns will be expected … Continue reading
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Geek Love
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, a professor is simply a dork who has turned pro. Part of getting the Ph.D. is the dissertation, which is supposed to be an original contribution to the knowledge in the field. In … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Music
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Law, Order, and Northrop Frye
“The use of archetypal myth in the creation of fiction is the literary equivalent of peddling dope.” — David Eddings, introduction to The Rivan Codex. I know I’m a day or so late to the party, but a TV show … Continue reading
“We’ve Got to Get Into Something Real”
“The final truth is there is no truth.” — Boomtown Rats I often tell my students that we live in an age of irony, and to make my point, I ask them when they last made it through a day … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Why I Do What I Do
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Myths and Models
Yesterday at Phi Beta Cons, Jane S. Shaw noted a WaPo piece by Richard D. Kahlenberg that discusses what he sees as “myths” about admission to college, and particularly to elite colleges. While some of the information he presents is … Continue reading
Micro and Macro
In my syllabi, I have a section that includes the following: YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE WRITERS OR SCHOLARS. YOU ARE, HOWEVER, REQUIRED TO REGARD THEM WITH RESPECTFUL ATTENTION. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM AND … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Politics, Why I Do What I Do
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