The Unassuming Scholar's Weblog

Even for us who haven’t contracted COVID or whose families have been somehow unscathed, 2020 was a lost year.   I struggle to not mourn the ...

  As the Electoral College casts its vote, the “Stop the Steal” crowd is doubling down on its baffling inability to accept that their man lo...

Synopsis: Biden won.  This changes nothing.  It appears Joe Biden has won the presidency. I wish I could be more satisfied with the outcom...

Americans Surge to Polls: ‘I’m Going to Vote Like My Life Depends on It’ (New York Times) Millions of Mail-in Ballots at Risk in Battlegr...

  At first glance, they looked like any other group of Trump supporters demonstrating for their president.   They were predominately women a...

This week marks six months of confinement for me.   Winter has turned to spring to summer and now to autumn.   From within four walls I’ve...

A few years ago, I joined an adjunct faculty discussion forum on Google Groups.   More of a lurker than a joiner, I’d read some of the dis...