The Unassuming Scholar's Weblog

The tipping point for this post was a required online training for work.   It was a refresher on Title IX and the Clery Act.   Two things st...

I’ve spent the past weeks wondering which outrageous act would prompt me to write about Trump 2.0.   Keeping up with the firehose gush of ra...

It begins all over again tomorrow.   It seems almost a sacrilege that this inauguration day happened to fall on Martin Luther King Day. Th...

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...