The year is 1979.  America is awash in a sea of polyester, flared trousers, and long hair, bouncing […]

I was recently invited to be part of a student panel to welcome all new Ph.D. students to […]

In a July 10, 2017 entry on her website, The Pioneer Woman—popular television cooking personality Ree Drummond—describes a […]

Neo-Confederates insist that the many statues of Robert E. Lee commemorate only southern “heritage,” and that the revered […]

First of all, as a Democrat, this needs to be said: to Hell with Joe Manchin. He has […]

The Gary Soto Literary Museum is, unarguably, the “smallest, cutest, cleanest museum in the country.” In Fresno, California, […]

When I read @philommeides_’s tweet about grad-school comps, my heart sank.  The author expressed how her extremely difficult […]

In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins of America like […]