History Unfolding

It occurred to me this week, reading about the Republican sit-in in the Capitol basement, that today's Republican legislators are using ...

I did not know Harold Bloom, who died this week at the age of 89.  I have one of his books, The Western Canon , in front of me, and I have e...

In David Lodge's wonderful novel about the academic year 1968-9,   Changing Places , a party of Berkeley English profs play a game calle...

Contemplating the forthcoming impeachment of President Trump--an event every day's headlines make more likely, at a pace even more rapid...

Let me begin with a flat statement: impeachment--in its literal sense--is going ahead.  Impeachment refers to a kind of indictment brought i...