Dear sunscreen appliers, The Lazy Scholar is happy to return to these webpages after a protracted journey through the land of end-of-semester labor—paper grading and dissertation prospecting, to be precise. There are still some seniors milling (and drinking) around campus, biding their time until commencement. But so far, I haven’t spotted any yearbooks—that tried and [...]
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The Yearbook in Review
Posted in books, cartoons, education, Jews on May 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Battle of the Textbooks
Posted in books, education, tagged textbooks on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently while I was on vacation, the Texas Board of Education moved to add a dose of conservative (and evangelical) historiography into the state social studies curriculum—Milton Friedman! Phyllis Schlafly! Jesus! As Sam Tanenhaus noted last Sunday in the New York Times, some of their revisions are more controversial than others. What matters more is [...]
Melting Pots, Male Quartets, and Les Miserables Music-less
Posted in education, lectures, music, theater, Uncategorized, tagged Chautauqua, University of Iowa on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear dawdlers, Forgive this lazy scholar, returning after a prolonged sabbatical. Not that I have not been working, researching, and blogging, too—albeit on another site. (You can read some of those less lazy dispatches on Post-Post-Jew). I even watched the entire first season of Heroes. So you can tell, I have been productive. But I’m [...]
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