Things I’ve written on the Internet in no particular order.
On the State of the Union, the University, and the Humanities
On “Footprints” that Jesus-in-the-sand thing
On Literary Criticism, Fractals, Hugh Kenner
On Teaching the “I,” the Voice, and the Self
On the “Soviet Union Going Out of Business Sale”
On The Day After Tomorrow vs. Superman III
On How to Succeed with Lonely Intellectuals
On School Violence in Higher Ed (or, don’t bludgeon your advisor with a ball peen hammer)
On Failing to Become an Astronaut
On Never Having Been to Europe (I have, since, been to Europe)
On Robin Williams and the New Criticism
On That Time I Was Addicted to Tetris
