UC Santa Cruz announced today that this will be the final season for Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC), the professional repertory company in residence at the campus. The current season, the 32nd since the festival debuted on campus in 1981, will conclude this year following the annual holiday show in December. News release at UC Santa […]
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Women you don’t want to date. Or maybe women you want to date. Good thing I don’t have to worry about it.
than this headline. I had read parts of Maier’s work over the last decade but when I listened to Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 I really became enamored with her wit, style, and ability. I followed up by revisiting her other works, notably From Resistance to Revolution and American Scripture, and enjoyed them […]
At the risk of re-linking what you may have already seen, I wanted to highlight what Dean Putney has been doing. His blog, the Walter Koessler project, represents much work in scanning, researching, and publishing a family heirloom: his great-grandfather’s photo album. From Dean’s first post: It’s incredible for many reasons: Walter was German, and […]
I’m finally able to access my account and post. The “upgrade” to Blogger was enough to give me the push I needed to want to move to a different platform. I’ll need to finish getting ready for the school year first, which will take a couple more weeks. Hopefully I’ll have something in place before […]
I’m almost over a case of food poisoning so I’ll get back to posting soon. Funny thing when I’m sick…I have all this time to read but never feel like doing it when I feel bad. Fortunately that’s not as much of an issue now.
I’m going to post about a film before posting about the book for a change. Not that it matters…I’m not sure if it is harder to find the novel in the decent English translation or this film with English subtitles, but then I seem to excel in posting about things no one will ever read […]
Paine found himself carried forward by the immense wave of his book’s popularity into the heart of New World society. If Common Sense isolated the fears and the angers of the average colonist and focused them into a strategy for the future, its impact was tenfold for the men who would face charges of treason […]
At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet in January 1776. Arguing for a republican form of government under a written constitution, it played a key role in rallying American support for independence. Picture source at The Historical Marker Database We have it in our power to […]
Picture source at Wikipedia For the Fourth of July I thought I would do something different. The obvious choice would be to look at the Declaration of Independence or its philosophical history and background, but I wanted to re-read Common Sense and look at on one of America’s most problematic founding fathers, Thomas Paine. I […]