Monthly Archives: January 2015
Another review in LARB
Years ago, I rather liked the essay Adam Phillips wrote on Freud and biography in Darwin’s Worms, which suggested psychoanalysis fundamentally pulls the rug out from the very idea of biography. Imagine my surprise to see Phillips later wrote a short biography … Continue reading
Tamler Sommers—Master Podcaster!
Hey, did you know that Honors College philosophy prof Tamler Sommers has a wonderfully irreverent podcast? Not only is it stimulating and highly entertaining—it’s also getting a LOT of notice! As in nearly half a million downloads in little over … Continue reading
Cremins on Manor of Speaking!
As hinted earlier, our colleague Robert Cremins has indeed reappeared as a talking head to comment on the social and historical background of Downton Abbey (Season 5, episode 1) on KUHT’s Award Winning Manor of Speaking with Ernie Manouse. http://manorofspeaking.org/this-weeks-episode/ He looks quite … Continue reading
Richard H Armstrong 