Posts by Alfred Brophy

After Dan Filler's post, I would like to add a note marking the recent passing of William E. Nelson. I can remember that Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact…

Let It Be is presented as renaissance madrigal. And two others and 1960s and 1970s are presented in similar fashion: Stayin' alive, by the Bee Gees. And Simon and Garfunkel's…

In 1968 the Whole Earth Catalog reports the HP 9100A calculator was priced at $4900. And the calculator was 40 lbs. Wow.

I am in the minority -- I didn't think that Ken Burns' Revolutionary War was not good. And I really regret this, because Ken Burns is really fantastic. American Revolutionary…

I did not realize that Dick Cheney's wife had a Ph.D. Her title was "Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry." And her university,…

John Fabian Witt's latest Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Charles Garland's grandfather was extraordinarily wealthy. Garland's optimism was well rewarded. "In a…

W.H. Auden's authored this syllabus at the University of Michigan. I do not think this one is reasonable.  2 credits; 6000 pages. I don't think so. Final examination?

Was this Revolutionary War hero America’s first openly gay general? Obviously. I thought that was clear.