Posts by Alfred Brophy

This week's Chroncile Review has an essay by Mark Lilla, "Taking the Right Seriously," that you may be interested in.  I think Lilla under-serves the conservative movement (and those of…

Last month I attended a fabulous seminar at the Thomas Cobb house in Athens, Georgia.  The reading for the seminar was Cobb's An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery,…

I haven't blogged about rankings in, oh, a while--maybe not since the US News rankings came out this spring?  (Ok -- I had a fun post on the Southern California Interdisciplinary…

Over at doublex, Kerry Howley's talking about Kim Krawiec's paper Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Marketa.  Howley said she was afraid that Kim's paper on "would send…

We're in the midst of classes; I'm teaching two huge lectures; I'm drowning in work.  So no time for new posts.  That means ... it's time for a classic.  And…

Last night I watched a rerun of Law and Order SVU -- about someone who faked multiple personality disorder to get away with killing her parents (she was found not…

Steven Conn's Do Museums Still Need Objects, which will be published next month by Penn Press, is yet another book I want to read.  I'll pick up a copy when…

Last week brought a wonderful volume that I've been eagerly awaiting all summer:  Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors' A New Literary History of America.  The book has about 250 essays…

With classes starting today and curriculum on my mind, I thought I'd talk a little bit about the curriculum of the antebellum southern college.  In algebra class, they sometimes studied…

I've been following now for some years the periodic stories about politicians' writings when they were in college or law school.  Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College thesis on Saul Alinsky got…