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From the office of Prof. Neville Morley, Supreme Plenipotentiary, Überboss and Vice-Chancellor of Ex University, Earth 2:
Your ever-caring and responsive senior management team has heard your pathetic whining about the Why On Earth Should We Keep Paying You? pro-formas, the ever-shifting timescale for their completion and the sheer opacity of our plans...
The sociologist Kieran Healy raised a really good question over on Bluesky today:
We’re missing a word for the facing page of text before the start or after the end of a classic journal article. This material survives in the scanned copy of the famous article, a fragmentary and often strange glimpse into forgotten everyday scholarship that was on par with the classic i...
It is deeply uncomfortable to admit, but there is truth in the old claim that one becomes more conservative with age. This isn’t a ‘bit’, burnishing my credentials for an application to become Director of one of the new Centres for Western Civilization that seem to be popping up all over the United States in the name of viewpoint diversity; it is genuine reflection on the stu...
How is it August already? It’s not that I got nothing done last month, but too much time was absorbed by online meetings, online chats, reading lengthy and often mendacious documents from management and just trying to process what’s happening at the university – above all, the sense that there really is no plan or strategy beyond “smaller and cheaper” when it comes to humanit...
Like any self-respecting scholar of classical antiquity, I have Opinions about Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey, even if I haven’t seen it yet.
(1) Obviously the most important aspect of any such adaptation is how it relates to my own specialist field, so I was delighted to see a clear Thucydidean influence in the rational explanation of the Trojan War as being...