Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Rules Are the Rules, After All

Posted on June 27, 2011 by John Churchill

So I wrote back and said, “Yeah, yeah. I know this guy. I’ve been on committees with him at who knows how many institutions and commissions. What a pain.” Not really. No, actually, the incoming email had read something like … Continue reading →

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The Shining (No, Not THAT Shining)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by John Churchill

All Things Shining is a still fairly new book by a pair of distinguished philosophers, Hubert Dreyfus of UC Berkeley and Sean Dorrance Kelly of Harvard. I wrote about a review of it a few weeks ago, noting that Moby-Dick, … Continue reading →

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I Nearly Died of Fraught

Posted on June 13, 2011 by John Churchill

We have a new popologism. It’s not a neologism, necessarily, (Though “popologism” is.) It may be a retrologism or a paleologism. Popologisms come along regularly; they are the words or phrases of the moment, les mots du jour, the expressions … Continue reading →

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Do You Give a Rip (Rap)?

Posted on June 6, 2011 by John Churchill

  Reading in Jon Meacham’s American Lion, a narrative of the Jackson presidency, I kept running across mentions of executive excursions down the Potomac to a spot in the mouth of the harbor at Hampton Roads, an artificial island called … Continue reading →

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