Friday afternoons at The Citadel, more often than not, bring a parade. It’s a rather hard thing to describe to folks who haven’t seen it, and it’s quite impressive once you have: the cadets march out from the barracks in their finery, rolling across the great green lawn of the …
I constantly tell my students that human knowledge is always subject to emendation. That’s the beauty and curse of living in a rationalized, post-Enlightenment age. Our greater understanding of the world has, perhaps paradoxically, left us with fewer reliable facts. Like most things in life, this existential conundrum is perhaps …
I’m teaching mythology for the first time here. It’s a lot of fun, but it is a lot of work. This is especially true because I’ve been making fancy-pants PowerPoint presentations to cover the material in class. I’m still quite new to the software — I know, don’t laugh — …
I’d say something about having two stacks of papers on my desk waiting to be graded, but that would be inaccurate. I have an inbox full of two batches of digital documents waiting to be graded. I’m still not sure how I feel about this whole digital papers, digital grading …
For any cadets stumbling around and finding this site, this news is just in: 208: Special Topics (Tolkien) – Livingston Yep. That’s a class on J.R.R. Tolkien being offered for your attending and learning pleasure this spring, here at The Citadel. And with that 200 number almost everyone can take …