Articles by TheIncensedProfessor
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As angry as he is erudite, the gentleman known only as The Incensed Professor steps onto the PluggedInto stage with a few bones to pick and minds to expand.
I left my car, “Incitatus,” with a friendly cousin in Atlanta, where I took the train to New York to board the Queen Mary II. I had a roomette on the train, which had
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July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments
NOTE: Across the Pond with the Incensed Professor is a summer series by the prolific professor who is currently revisiting some of his favorite locations in Great Britain.
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July 7, 2017 // 1 Comment
The last Dowager Empress of China, known as Cixi, depending on which transliteration you prefer, is an unlikely person to quote approvingly. She was not a nice
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July 4, 2017 // 0 Comments
As a trained historian, I find the historical ignorance of this generation of students appalling and scary. If you don’t know where the human race has been or
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June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
Incensed Professor No. 5: One of the curious things in the peculiar world of public morality is the occasional flare of outrage over “bad” books. It isn’t just the
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May 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
One of the curious things in the peculiar world of public morality is the occasional flare of outrage over “bad” books. It isn’t just the fact that book burning is a
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April 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
In the old days, before “long-haired music” came to mean the Beatles, those unfortunates who did not like “classical music” would just shrug and say that they were
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March 15, 2017 // 0 Comments
I am pretty sure I will get some querulous e-mails after my opinions about students as modern barbarians, if anyone paid attention. The anonymity of social media is a great
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February 8, 2017 // 0 Comments
P. Cavafy, the great 20th century Greek poet who lived much of his life in Alexandria, wrote a masterpiece called “Waiting for the Barbarians.” In it, a highly civilized
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January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments