Incensed Professor at Sea 2: New York
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 [Read More]
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The Incensed Professor at Sea: La Vie en Grand Seigneur
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. [Read More]
One must cultivate one’s person
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 [Read More]
History neglected is identity lost
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 [Read More]
Morality of Literature
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 [Read More]
The Morality of Literature
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 [Read More]
Taste and the Sanior Pars
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 [Read More]
The Incensed Professor No. 3: Curiosity
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 [Read More]
The incensed professor No. 2: Incurious Barbarians
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 [Read More]
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