Several events frame the plot connecting Trump with Putin and the Russian oligarchs. Trump/Russia: A Definitive History by Seth Hettena is certainly one of the…
I’m always slightly startled to find that I’m in my seventies and sliding downhill. On this side of the journey, I seem to be saying…
I began this blog to write about teaching writing. I stopped teaching two years ago and have increasingly (and perhaps unavoidably) swerved both in my…
Compared to my last post, this one should be brief. It follows from the heterodox/orthodox discussion below. By heterodox, the people in the discussion below…
The following post to a writing teachers listserv (WPA-l) was a consequence of an over-spirited conversation among college writing (usually referred to as rhet/comp) teachers discussing the…