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7.4 (Fall 2007)
A Taxonomy of North American Society’s Narratives of Catastrophe and Dissolution
John R. Harris
Space Exploration, Technology, and the Possible Futures of Humanity
Mark Wegierski
The High Hills: Frederick Delius and the Secular Sublime
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Invitation to Opposing Voyages
J. S. Moseby
7.3 (Summer 2007)
The New Berlioz: Musical High Romanticism in an Age of Technical and Ideological Correctness
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Orality and Literacy Revisited: Beleaguered Allies Against the Technical Onslaught of the Visual
John R. Harris
Mark Wegierski
Painting Dick Tracy into Heaven (poem)
Michael H. Lythgoe
Still Life (short story)
Fiona MacAlistair
7.2 (Spring 2007)
Facilis Descensus Averno, Part II: A Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion and Social Dissolution
John R. Harris
Planet-Wide Cultural Struggles Over Definitions of Freedom, Order, and Security Will Determine the Shape of the Future
Mark Wegierski
Drugged Reality
Mark Wegierski
Socratic Method in Comp 101: Wringing Simple Truths from Complex Essays
Peter Singleton
Continental Shelf
J. S. Moseby
Requiescat Oriana Fallaci: A Poem, A Prayer
Peter Singleton
7.1 (Winter 2007)
Religion Against Itself: The Revolt of the Elite of the United Church of Christ
Howard S. Schwartz
Facilis Descensus Averno , Part I
A Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion and Social Dissolution
John R. Harris
Modernity and the Machine: Viewpoints on Technology and Society
and
(Postscript) Interpreting the Millennium: The Dilemma of Hypermodernity
Mark Wegierski
And Deliver Us from English
Mark Notzon
The Ghost of Caesar’s Wife
Ivor Davies
6.4 (Fall 2006)
Just What Did Robin Hood Really DO for the Poor?
Jim Stebinger
Realist Fiction and the Femina Immolata: Comparative Literature on Trial
John R. Harris
Work, Holidays, Leisure, Recreation, and the Search for Meaning in Late Modernity
and
What Remains Creative in the Heritage of Marx's Thought
Mark Wegierski
An Interview with Michael Lythgoe, Poet of Brass
John Harris
That That "That" Restricts... Rules for Snobby Fools
Staff
The Show Goes On
J. S. Moseby
6.3 (Summer 2006)
A Synthetic Meditation on Baseball, Racism, Closed Systems, and Spiritual Rigor Mortis
John R. Harris
Three Poems from Troubled Lands
Ralph S. Carlson
Pyotr’s Long Short-Cut (fiction)
Peter Singleton
Melville and His Marxist Critics
Steve Kogan
6.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2006)
“I, Martian”: The Autoscopy of a Science Fiction Addict
Thomas F. Bertonneau
The Narcissus Narcosis: A Platonic Dialogue on the Plight of Culture in Contemporary Society
John R. Harris
Traditionalist Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy
and
Science Fiction, Pop-Culture, and the World-Historical Crisis
Mark Wegierski
Some Highly Impolitic Thoughts on Cultural Decay, Peasantry, and the Mexican Diaspora
Peter Singleton
Night Draft
J. S. Moseby
Friedland, from Confessions of the Creature
Gary Inbinder
5.4 (Fall 2005)
The Post-Literate Student and the Anti-Literate Academy: A Bad Match at a Crucial Moment
John R. Harris
A Dark Turn in the Pop-Culture: "Bleak Future" and Occult-Horror Subgenres in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming
Mark Wegierski
Dark Futures in Gaming: Some Further Explorations
Mark Wegierski
Teacher, Make Me Wise!
Staff
Four Poems
Michael H. Lythgoe
Career Year (short story)
J.S. Moseby
5.3 (Summer 2005)
How Never to Write a "Scholarly Article": On Falling Afoul of Academic Bigotry
John R. Harris
Christian Virtues in Star Trek (TOS)
Kim Paffenroth
Star Trek Cultural Vector and Hollywood Cash-Cow
Mark Wegierski
Some Thoughts on Herbert Marcuse vs. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Mark Wegierski
Window Without a View (short story)
Ivor Davies
5.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2005)
True Stories, by Lev Razgon: Literature and the Soviet Genocide
Steve Kogan
The False Conservatism of the Cynic's Utopia: Kant, Machiavelli, and Truthfulness
John R. Harris
Three Essays for Students: On Topics Various and Sundry and Illustrative of Problems Faced by Beginning Writers
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Deconstructing Arthur
Gary Inbinder
Two Brief Essays on Politics, the Economy, and Western Culture
Mark Wegierski
Reviews of Recent Books Which Strive to Define Contemporary Culture
Mark Wegierski
Reviews of Reuven Brenner, The Financial Century: From Turmoils to Triumphs; Richard P. Nielsen, The Politics of Ethics: Methods for Acting, Learning, and Sometimes; and Myron Magnet, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to theUnderclass.
Poetry Corner: Three Poems
The Lost Karankawa and Catalogue of Slips, by David Adams; Lost Indictment, by John Harris
Dry Thaw (short story)
J.S. Moseby
4.4 (Fall 2004)
Can Glory Blaze from the Void? Thoughts on the Tenuous Connection between Painting and Literacy
John R. Harris
Putting a Period to the "Quote" Issue
Staff
Have Late Modern Values and Technology Made Great Art Impossible?
Mark Wegierski
War on a Rainy Afternoon: Boardgames and Myth-Making
Mark Wegierski
What Are Historical Boardgames or Wargames? An Introduction
Paleocons vs. Neocons in Board Wargames
Review of the Magazine: GameFix: The Forum of Ideas and of "Near-Future Conflict" boardgame Crisis 2000: Insurrection in the United States!
Review of the "Near-Future Conflict" Boardgame, Minuteman: The Second American Revolution
Fashion Art and the Moral Imagination
Gary Inbinder
"The Prize for the Race" (short story)
Ivor Davies
R. S. Carlson and Michael Lythgoe: Four Poems Working, Walking, and Well-Being
John R. Harris
Four Poems in Paint
Jonathan Chaves
4.3 (Summer 2004)
Confessions of a Symphomaniac: Of Luck, Music, and the Training of the Soul
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Three Short Essays on Taste and Technology
"In the New Millennium: Five Internet Visions from a Technoskeptic"; "Can the Internet Challenge Today’s Informational and Cultural Monopoly?"; "For a New Cultural Criticism"
Mark Wegierski
Five-Finger Exercise for the Hairy Paw: How Music Might Rehabilitate Literacy
John R. Harris
Cosmic Dualism, Moral Freedom, Teleology, and Natural Rights
Gary Inbinder
Teleology and Music: Editor’s Postscript
John R. Harris
A Generation X-er Declines to Defend Contemporary Music
Kelly Hampton
"The Mendicant Professor Vows Poverty of Expression"
Jim Pangborn
"Reading The Wall Street Journal" and "Imprints"
Michael Lythgoe
Two Musical Italian Short Stories:
"The Tympanist" by Aldo Camerino and "Music" by Giovanni Guareschi
(translated by Gianna DiRoberti)
"Liminal Negligence"
J.S. Moseby
4.2 (Spring 2004)
The Aesthetic Crisis of Post-Literacy: How Lack of Finesse Feeds Moral Collapse
John R. Harris
The Judgment of Paris
Gary Inbinder
A Young Person’s Guide to Postmodernism
four polemical book reviews by Paul Sonnino
Goldsmith, Blue and Green
review-essay by Mark Wegierski
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, by Don Watson
reviewed by Margaret Turnbull
Words in Spring’s Hour Glass: Three Poems
Ralph S. Carlson
Terminal Promotion (short story)
Ivor Davies
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist
4.1 (Winter 2004)
Pessimism au Pied de la Lattre; Ideological Illiteracy and the Vertical Invasion of the Barbarians
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Reviews of Recent Books
The Skin of Culture: Investigating the New Electronic Reality,
by Derrick de Kerckhove
The Unconscious Civilization, by John Ralston Saul
The Revolt of the Elites: and the Betrayal of Democracy, by
Christopher Lasch
Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death Contestations: Cornell Studies in Political Theory, by John E. Seery
George Grant: A Biography, by William Christian
reviewed by Mark Wegierski
Recovered Body, by Scott Cairns
reviewed by Michael H. Lythgoe
There is an Isle: A Limerick Boyhood, by Criostoir O’Flynn
reviewed by Peter Singleton
On Eternity and Moral Reason: Why Clocks Keep Ticking in Heaven
John R. Harris
El Día de Hoy (short story)
Ivor Davies
Santa’s Death (poetry)
John R. Harris
3.4 (Fall 2003)
Daggerpoints and Loggerheads: Intellectualism and the Decline of the West
John R. Harris
"And From Our Correspondent In…"
R.S. Carlson
To the Prophets: An Essay on Romanticism
John D. Wright
Postscript to Essay on Romanticism: Author and Editor Trade Thoughts
John Wright and John Harris
Translated Excerpts from Pierre Lasserre’s Le Romantisme Français
Gianna DiRoberti
"Third Degree" (short story
)Ivor Davies
Life Via Electron: "Da News" and "Prayers from Belgrade" (poetry)
R.S. Carlson
3.3 (Summer 2003)
Judges of the Past
Jonathan Chaves
Look Homeward, Angela
Staff
Daggerpoints and Loggerheads: The Twentieth Century’s Fatal Division into
Ideological Camps
John R. Harris
Transgressive Technologies: Does a Posthuman Dystopia Await Us?
Mark Wegierski
"Diagnosis" (poem)
R.S. Carlson
Four Poems by Michael H. Lythgoe
Hommage à Baudelaire: Three Prose Poems
John R. Harris
"White Cover" (short story)
J.S. Moseby
Dr. Palaver
3.2 (Spring 2003)
Kicking the Stone and Viewing the Icon: Realist Epistemology Between Heaven and Earth
Jonathan Chaves
Daggerpoints and Loggerheads: A Sad Time’s Taste for Perverse Oppositions
John R. Harris
"Some Mornings on the DMZ" and Other Poems
R.S. Carlson
War of the Worlds: Post-Literate Reporting Meets the Ugliness of Truth
Peter Singleton
Spontaneous Overflow
Ivor Davies
Star-Mangled Banner
Staff
Footprints in the Snow of the Moon
J.S. Moseby
Common Sense Strikes Out
Staff
3.1 (Winter 2003)
Foreign Language and the Enemies of Literacy: An Addendum
John R. Harris
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, by Martin Amis
Reviewed by Thomas F. Bertonneau
No More Mr. Nice Guy for "Zero Tolerance"
Peter T. Singleton
Generation X-Minus-One Goes to Hell in a Tenure Package
Staff
"Rings" on the Screen: Peter Jackson’s Valiant Defense of Moral Coherence
Kelly Ann Hampton
Auto Focus (movie review)
Mary Grabar
The Forsytes Were Better in Hindsight
Staff
"Footprints in the Snow of the Moon" (excerpt from novel)
J.S. Moseby
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist
2.4 (Fall 2002)
A Sampling of Pronouncements from Our Cultural Elites
Steve Kogan
"So Cool"
R.S. Carlson
Literature and Literacy: The Decline of Reading and the Stultification of Student Prose
Thomas F. Bertonneau
"And Choice of Sides or Pronoun"
R.S. Carlson
"From a Safe Distance"
R.S. Carlson
Who Needs Enemies? The Peculiar Struggle of Literary Studies at Christian-Affiliated Colleges
John R. Harris
"Fish in a Barrel"
Ivor Davies
2.3 (Summer 2002)
Thinking is Hard: How a Damaged LiteracyvHinders Students from Coming to Grips With Ideas
Thomas F. Bertonneau
The Dusty, Dog-Eared Book: Space Well Wasted
Peter T. Singleton
Post-Literacy, Biblicism, and the Death of Christianity: Big Party in the Wading Pool
John R. Harris
"Three Sketches of Post-Social Society"
Fiona MacAlister
If It Keeps Them Quiet, Is It True?
(Staff)
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist
Three Poems
R.S. Carlson
Three Poems
Michael H. Lythgoe
2.2 (Spring 2002)
The Intimate Message of Foreign Language: One Small Curricular Step Toward Restoring Reason
John R. Harris
It’s Been Said Before (Jules Romains)
Staff
Bimbos in Limbo: Will the Real Bobo Please Stand Up?
Gianna DiRoberti
William James Visits Yosemite in 1898
and
Itinerary and Chronology of William James’s California Trip (August 1898)
Allan Shields
Pieta
Joseph Soldati
Who Shall ’Scape Whipping?
Staff
R.S. Carlson: Three Poems
Ralph Carlson
Seeing Space
J. S. Moseby
Postscript to Seeing Space: An Interview with the Author Straight Shaft
Ivor Davies
Watch on the Wry
Staff
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist
2.1 (Winter 2002)
Toward Anthroponomy: How Western Culture Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy
John R. Harris
Academentia: Making History
Mary Grabar
Clowning with Cloning: Where Clouds of Witness End and Cloudy Witlessness Begins
Peter Singleton
The Anthropological and Psychological Origins of Political Correctness… with Emphasis on Howard Schwartz’s The Revolt of the Primitive
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Three by R.S. Carlson
Ralph Carlson
Counsellor Dan and Biddy Moriarty Have a Go at Each Other
Staff
Postscript to Tacitus
Giles Maskell
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist
1.4 (Fall 2001)
Rest in Peace, World Trade Center: Live Unsettled, Mankind
Peter T. Singleton
Academentia: Terror in the Tower
Mary Grabar
The Jargon of Mock Ethnicity: Multiculturalism and Diversity as Virtual Thinking
Thomas F. Bertonneau
The Arduous Path Up Spengler’s Decline: An Idealist Responds to Destiny
John R. Harris
Two Notes on Boys and Men:
Why All the Fuss About Alcibiades?
and
How Calamity Jane Rewrote the [Her]story of the West
(staff)
"Alpha" Is for "Acephalic"
(staff)
Nihilist’s Progress: From Marx to Feminism to Misogyny
Gianna DiRoberti.
Three by R.S. Carlson
Ralph Carlson
Running On Empty
J.S. Moseby
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist
"Holy Warrior"
John R. Harris
1.3 (Summer 2001)
Breaking Line at Payback Time: Victim-Ideology’s Culture of Rage
Peter Singleton
Express Train to 1929
Steve Kogan
No "Middle" in Middle America, No Aristotle in the Academy
Kelly Ann Hampton
Semper Inutile: In Praise of the Useless
John R. Harris
Three Poems Under Clear Skies
Pantoum for Gardeners (Michael H. Lythgoe)
Intimations of Spirality (John R. Harris)
It's Been Said Before (Jacques Barzun)
(staff)
Baseball Strikes Out
(staff)
Dr. Palaver, Word Therapist Contemporary Antiquities
J.S. Moseby
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