Posts by Alfred Brophy

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.

The second tier (51-100) is correlated with professor ranking and the Washington and Lee Law Library (citations) is .53.   That is not as strong as the first tier  (1-50) and…

I think that US News is off -- Harvard number 6? I don't think so. And Columbia number 10. And the ABA Journal: "Just how important are the U.S. News…

Nimitz Library removed nearly 400 books. Not really. Among others, this is removed: Reginald Horsman's Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, Physician, and Racial Theorist (1987). I am familiar with this,…

Ted Afield is going to be visiting with the faculty lounge blog. Afield is a professor at Georgia State University School of Law.  Aflied "serves as the Associate Dean for…

Amidst all the talk of compromise of late, I thought I'd talk a little bit about another politician who celebrated compromise: John Kennedy.  I'm working (slowly) on an essay about…

  Where is it? What is it? (This is only what it is, I think.)

Service and Segregation in Virginia Public Libraries. It is an excellent article. I was a loyal patron of the Library of Virginia in 1990-91. The Library of Virginia was segregated…