
With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization
During our season of political madness, it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and…
Read MoreDuring our season of political madness, it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and…
Read MoreWilla Cather is so associated with the Nebraska prairie’s expanse, depicted in novels like O…
Read MoreWithin William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he…
Read MoreHistorically amongst the revelers at Venice’s celebrated Mardi Gras Carnival, are those costumed in the…
Read MoreIn 2019 the community of literary scholars marked the passing of the pugilistic and controversial…
Read MoreDuring the controversy surrounding the selection of a design for the Martin Luther King Jr….
Read MoreSince the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation…
Read MoreA reluctant Indian militant, a Jew with Christmas envy, and a feminist in search of an alternative Thanksgiving are among the scholars and writers who have weighed in over the years on our secular religious national holiday of Thanksgiving.
Read MoreFor all that Bloom got wrong about theory and the state of the discipline, he was correct in his contention that the sometimes godlessness of the field was a critical detriment, and that ‘A nation obsessed with religion rather desperately needs a religious criticism.’
Read MoreMorrison’s witness to language’s power to both destroy and create has been on ample display in our current season of American blood-letting. In 1993 Morrison warned of “Tongue-suicide,” which is “common among the infantile heads of state and power merchants whose evacuated language leaves them with no access to what is … human.”
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