Unlike last semester, when we all just figured it out as best we could at a moment’s notice, this time students have the right to expect us professorial types to be a little better at professing online, and while I’m no digital humanities genius I do care deeply about my student colleagues, as I do about my professorial and administrative colleagues. So the purpose of this blog post is to share two philosophical assumptions about teaching that makes being a professor the most amazing job in the world, and to suggest to my fellow professors and those who support the university some ways in which those assumptions can be enacted in online teaching.

A few days ago a friend posted this image online with a comment. Her students had noted that 43-year-old Man Ray photographing 19-year-old Meret Oppenheim nude to create this image is "creepy," and I agree. Or at least I think I do.

Pat Buchanan delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention in 1992 that Molly Ivins, a widely-syndicated newspaper columnist, commented "probably read better in the original German." In this post I return to that speech, known as the 'Culture War' speech, and ask why we are surprised that so little has changed in the 25 years since it was delivered.

Someday My Prince Will Come is one of those early Miles Davis albums (recorded for Columbia in 1960-61, released in 1961) that seems like you've heard it before, except you probably haven't. The title cut is a cover of - of all things - a song most widely associated even in 2017 with a Disney film from eighty years before, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I don't think the 1960 version is riding as hard on the coattails of the film as some did at the time.