Michelle Obama, by Amy Sherald Yesterday ago a public ceremony, former President Barack Obama  and former First Lady Michelle Obama  un...

A week ago I posted about two standout examples of literary criticism, a young Barack Obama's super-concise reading of T. S. Eliot ...

The other day I came across Columbia professor and W. H. Auden  scholar  Edward Mendelson 's short blog entry at the New York Review ...

Yesterday President Barack Obama traveled down to Selma , Alabama to participate in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of " Bl...

Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) I didn't start blogging until 2005; last mon...

Richard Blanco (Dodge Poetry site) As soon as I saw the exciting news that President Barack Obama  named Richard Blanco , an out gay, S...

Emancipation Proclamation, p. 1 Happy New Year! 150 years ago President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation , a larg...

There have been many excellent reports online about the alleged "fiscal cliff," which is not a cliff at all but more of a ...

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama Vice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden (Sept. 7, 2012, Portsmouth, N...

Today, after a false morning alarm, which involved the electricity surging on while I was in the shower,    only to shut off not even 10 mi...

My apologies for all the errors in the post on the color "blue"! I wrote it after a long, busy teaching day, and only noted well a...