Monthly Archive: October, 2008

Academics, Political Scholarship, and Jonah Goldberg

(x-posted to The Valve) Over at Acephalous (and at The Edge of the American West), Scott Kaufman has posted the text of Friday’s panel presentation on Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism) and the right-wing… Continue reading

Time Must Have A Stop

(x-posted to The Valve) At least three ABD students, myself included, are currently working on James Joyce at UC Irvine; all of them are working on Joyce’s representations of time, particularly the tension… Continue reading

The Idea of Order and the problem of Stravinsky

(x-posted to The Valve) Dear readers, The heated, often deeply antagonistic exchange that has developed at The Valve in the comments to my post on David Foster Wallace reminds me of something from… Continue reading