Ag deireanach, mo mhac sine ag céim amach le hIonad Mhic Eoin ag an Ollscoil na dTailte Dearg.  Thóg Casaideach dha grianghraf seo os c...

My son and I were discussing a professor at his experimental liberal arts alma mater. She taught a feminist comedy course. She admitted she...

Well, my older son graduated, lei and all. His roommates over the years, another pal, and his younger brother (red shirt) sent him off in J...

This shows myself (in cap), Pat Harrigan, my wife Layne, and Kathryn Green at the end of the Lawrence Durrell seminar. This was held last ...

  Yesterday marks the centennial+ 1 day of a crime. It was committed by those hired to not only suppress but to fire upon strikers and th...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about feminist opposition to "safe spaces" and free speech, within contexts of defending Islam. ...

I asked a few days ago here " Is It Immoral to Serve? " I found this through Gerry Cappa's FB feed only yesterday: "Wh...

As readers of this blog know, William T. Vollmann, as a hunt with that search term here will verify, remains one of my favorite authors. A...

Cheannaigh mé an cóip seo le Pinnochio le Carlo Collodi an mí seo caite. Bhí dith orm a fháil an leabhar seo ann. Tá mé ag tósu ag léamh sa...

We commonly heard it said "thank you for your service" in post-9/11 America. So, I ask my veteran or current on-duty stud...

Praising her college education, inspired by a professor whom she never knew was an adjunct, Carmen Maria Machado in a recent New Yorker ...

  I share this via my friend Deaghlán Ó Donghaile in Liverpool. He posted this on FB c/o Bruce Fenton. As I blogged about...

  On April First, after Alex Gibney's HBO documentary on my hometown's most famous "tax-exempt religion" founded by a...

I opened FB today to find a headline from Mother Jones: " Bernie Sanders goes biblical on income inequality. " The elderly Jew...

  The war on the humanities, as I have had cause to observe during my career in the trenches or tranches as a student with a Ph.D. in Engli...