Crisis at Columbia: English Department Is in Receivership

Since the 1930′s, when The Liberal Imagination author and well-known Anglophile Lionel Trilling walked the corridors of Philosophy Hall as a professor, the English department at Columbia University has held its own among those at other Ivy League institutions. A bedrock of the university, its faculty today boasts such internationally recognized scholars as Edward Said Read More

Unwelcome Exits: Lamar, Matthau, Allen

Still suffering from election-scandal withdrawal, I hate to

add to the general feeling of pessimism in the air, but before the old man with

the scythe makes way for that new kid in diapers with his year to grow, I must

begin the new year with a tearful goodbye to the famous folks who left Read More