The Unassuming Scholar's Weblog

Going through this morning’s campus mail, I found a hand-addressed envelope among the usual clutch of publisher’s circulars and club announ...

The thought of disappearing without a trace terrified me as a child.   The idea that one could be here one minute and gone the next with n...

The Trump Administration’s policy of separating detained “illegals” from their children apparently now has the endorsement of The Man Up...

I didn’t anticipate writing three posts in a row on the unending furor over public speech.   However, after Roseanne abruptly lost her new...

I was in the faculty workroom doing paperwork when Darrell walked in and slumped into a chair across the table from me.   He looked deject...

Watching Fox News a few weeks ago, on one of the inevitable year-in-retrospective programs which air the last week of December, an item in ...

“Okay, that’s it for today’s class.  Please review Chapter 5 for Wednesday.” A hand goes up in the front row.  “Mr. Scholar?” “Yes,...