Shakespeare Or Perversity?

May 15, 2022

I’ve been writing about attempts to replace classic literature with contemporary drivel since I began this scruffy little blog in …

Guns And Liberty, 2022: Part 2

January 3, 2022

Last week’s installment of this updated series–enter “guns and liberty 2022–in the SMM homepage search bar to find the entire series–asked …

May 30, 2021

This Memorial Day, our thoughts turn to you who, unbidden, answered your country’s call, you who truly were–and are–the best …

February 21, 2021

In January of 2017 I wrote Deconstructing Shakespeare, which was the story of the Penn English Department and it’s oh-so-woke students …

August 18, 2020

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at …

May 26, 2019

This Memorial Day, our thoughts turn to you who, unbidden, answered your country’s call, you who truly were–and are–the best …

December 30, 2018

As regular readers know, I’ve been bemoaning the declining abilities of America’s young for a very long time. It is …

November 4, 2018

When I was a young teacher—young in years in the public schools, not in passage of years—I was invited, with …

September 25, 2014

Attorney General Eric Holder is, according to confirmed reports, going to resign as soon as his replacement has been confirmed. …