Modern Revolutions Crave a Leviathan
This book by Dan Edelstein (Professor of French at Stanford Univ.) surveys the concept of what a revolution meant from ancient to recent times. A key finding he makes is…
Applying Comics Theory to Ancient texts
Over the centuries, the texts that have been rescued by time from ancient Greece and Rome have been studied in many ways. As human ingenuity is never lacking, Natalie Swain…
Feel my forehead: that’s my brain working!
The headline is a quote from a character in a play being staged in Austin this month. The brain has to do a lot of work to really understand it,…