To acclimate myself to Brooklyn College, I’ve been sitting in on Nicola’s summer Canterbury Tales course and occasionally participating in class discussion. It’s been fun,…
Stuart Klawens, the film critic for The Nation, is the butt of a lot of jokes in our household. Even though I like his work,…
In Feb. 2006, Jeffrey wrote this: Back to the temporal archive: pork is a food central to Christian identity, a demarcative use that is positively…
Been quiet around these parts. Here’s a placeholder QOTD to supplement our various posts on heterogeneity and the English past (for example, here and here).…
Yet another creepy Bush nomination. This time, it’s James Holsinger, nominated for surgeon general. While he isn’t nearly as bad as David Hager, his 1991…
Suete sone, reu on me, and brest out of thi bondis: For nou me thinket that I se thoru bothen thin hondes Nailes dreven into…
Be aware of the discussion here, where JJC at last steps into the most recent animals discussions; and don’t forget (to fantasize) the past: Dinosaurs!…
Readers of this blog and attendees at the medieval to modern posthumanisms session at Kzoo know my position on the boundary between humans and animals.…
I just dismissed my last Barnard course, let them fill out evaluations, and had the penultimate sit here in my Barnard office. And I just…
WWII-era comic, via Crooked Timber, that argues why we fight: because the Germans are racially predisposed (since the 5th century!) to break treaties and kill…
