I knew that next semester was going to be rough, but my professor for Hegelian and post-Hegelian literary theory just posted his reading list along with a Darth Vaderesque warning about the reading load. Yeesh! I just ordered Eagleton’s book for an early January brush-up (hopefully it’ll show up while I’m out of town) and [...]
“Don’t Cry for Pinochet” His embrace of economic reform seems unlikely to have sprung from a commitment to freedom, given the overarching contempt for liberty that characterized the rest of his government. Rather, in order to insulate himself from the consequences of his murderous seizure of power, Pinochet sought out political allies, and his free [...]
After a frenzy of post-Marxist theory and post-Freudian analysis–that is to say, after reading up on the last decade’s scholarship for my end-of-semester papers–I’ve dug into Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s Iliad. To say that such a shift is a relief simply does no justice to the joy of reading old books without the nattering [...]
Mike from the Ooze has once again photoshopped me.
Mixed Reaction to Pinochet’s Death Another of the Cold War’s monsters now faces divine judgment. May his years as dictator of Chile serve as a warning to empires–God knows with whom you ally. School of the Americas Watch
It seems that I’ve accidentally wiped out a fair bit of my blog’s goodies while fiddling with BetaBlogger. I suppose I should treat this as an opportunity rather than a curse, so check back frequently for the new look of Hardly the Last Word! We’re doomed!
I’m thanking the heavens as I type that I’ve never had to cast one of these legendary affairs, but the article is just too funny: Come Christmas, there are always those cynics who dismiss infant nativity plays as pointless charades. What lessons, they ask, are to be learnt in the modern age from watching kids [...]
I have to republish to get the hit counter to show up, so here goes… (It’s right below the “my library” bit.)
The sermon went well yesterday, and in the process of researching for it, I ran into one of the most fun vice-words I’ve ever seen, the Latin crapula. My Latin class ends tomorrow (exempt from the final), and my students upload their portfolios tomorrow evening. Friday is the Old English exam, but that shouldn’t be [...]
