The Unassuming Scholar's Weblog

I have been a poor correspondent lately.   Cascading current events and work have distracted me.   So, for what it’s worth I will write down...

 There is little to say.  We are truly fucked.  Welcome back to the Trumpocalypse.

This week’s Republican National Convention has so far yielded few surprises.   Donald Trump secured his third successive presidential nomina...

Something like this was bound to happen.   Yesterday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump is yet another manifesting of the roiling strea...

  (Apologies…I couldn’t come up with a better title, so I borrowed from The Dead Kennedys.) The Supreme Court wrapped up its term last wee...

The news media of late presents an even more skewed view than usual of the state of our institutions of higher learning. The current skirm...

Last week, I spent over an hour in a disheartening conversation with a student.   She said she had spent her Spring Break watching TikTok vi...