The Notes Taken

Thanks to insistence of occasional contributor Sean Moreland, I've lately taken some interest in British romanticism. The impetus is a c...

We've had an eye on the historian Robin D.G. Kelley since...well, not just since we read his book on Thelonious Monk last year, but sin...

One of the most, maybe the most, time consuming parts to preparing a lecture for the course "Theories of Art" is searching for dec...

In the recent Egyptian elections the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties won the majority of votes. Overrated intellects such as A...

I've already mentioned the texts that I am teaching in the course "Great Philosophers," but I haven't yet posted about ...

Comrade McLennan here. To my dozen or so faithful readers on this blog, I bid you hearty greetings after a long, long interval. 2011 was an ...

Don't forget that the deadline for the submission of abstracts to the first meeting of the Schelling Society of North America is January...

I'll be introducing my first course for the winter semester in under two hours. Here's the reading list for the course: Plato, The R...

Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is enthusiastically ready to go to war with Iran if they pursue attempts to go nuclear. Accord...

I've spent the last few weeks reading a variety of works by Edgar Allan Poe (and Coleridge, for that matter), preparing for a paper that...