The child spy tip line in Virginia received a complaint about how a teacher was teaching “Beowulf.” Meanwhile, a Texas school has banned Neil Gaiman’s works.
Tag Archives: culture wars
Child Spy Rats Out English Teacher
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Saving the Classics from Ideologues
A Univ. of Chicago classicist fears the alt-right will appropriate the classics for their own ends.
On Using Lit as a Cudgel
Monday A conservative reader the other day accused me of relentlessly using this blog as “an anti-Trump cudgel,” which got me thinking about whether I was indeed guilty of losing perspective. Was I in the grip of what Balzac calls an “idée fixe”—which is to say, an obsession that defines a life? According to Encyclopedia […]
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Old Lit as a Transformational Experience
The power of a “King Lear” passage is a refutation of Scott Walker’s attempt to redirect higher education to “work force needs.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Geoffrey Chaucer, King Lear, Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, state university system, Wife of Bath, Williams Shakespeare Comments closed
Is Poetry in Decline? Nope
A New York Times columnist laments the decline of poetry. Here’s why he’s full of it.
Fighting Lit’s Culture Wars Again?!
A recent Wall Street Journal column is attempting to revive the 1990s culture wars over literature.
