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"Whenever you close the door and create darkness within, remember not to say, even then, that you are alone." Epictetus
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"Everything unknown is attributed a kind of magnificence." Tacitus
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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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.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
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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 T. 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
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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
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2.3 (Summer 2002)
Thinking is Hard: How a Damaged Literacy
Hinders 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
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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
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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
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3.2 (Spring 2003)
A Few Words from the Editor
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
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3.3 (Summer 2003)
A Few Words from the Editor
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
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3.4 (Fall 2003)
A Few Words from the Editor
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
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4.1 (Winter 2004)
A Few Words from the Editor
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
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4.2 (Spring 2004)
A Few Words from the Editor
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
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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
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