Autodidact: Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy, I
This was a talk written for a Summer School in 2003 but perhaps not delivered. Lack of access to my old records prevent me from finding out.
This was a talk written for a Summer School in 2003 but perhaps not delivered. Lack of access to my old records prevent me from finding out.
In the very years when Pius IX was defending his little kingdom, another war was waging on the other side of the world. There, too, an old-fashioned people in the Southern states were fighting to preserve their independence and their agrarian way of life against an aggressive industrialized power in the north.
A slightly revised version of a talk given in 2007 to the Association of Professional Educators of Louisiana, a sane teachers’ union founded by Roger Busbice, who used to invite his friends, Clyde Wilson, Don Livingston, Charles Eliott and myself to give talks on historical topics.
In a few days, we shall be publishing a splendid essay on Putin and the Ukraine War, written by the celebrated novelist and historian Piers Paul Read. As delighted as we are with the the opportunity, it is a cause for sad reflection that a writer of such merit–and reputation–should be publishing an original essay on a website with limited circulation. We shall be making it free to the public in hopes that it will receive the attention it deserves
Middle and Passive Voice, Deponent Verbs, and Genitive of Agent
Many people on the right are saying that the murder of Charlie Kirk marks the beginning of a Civil War. They are wrong on two counts.
I promised to serialize parts or all of the last chapter of the sequel to The Reign of Love. This chapter deals with the ethics of war. The photograph was taken about two weeks ago in Billings Park, Superior, Wisconsin, a half mile from where I lived as a child.