Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Inside the Government Fiasco

 Is Queen Elizabeth II one of the great performance artists?


Consider the shrieking fangirl. Just what is she screaming about  


Jan. 6 hearings continue today. Here’s why you should watch.

It’s still stunning to think about what these hearings are about.




Which brings me to my first text for this evening, from the great religious poet, Philip Larkin. Larkin is religious precisely because he very much did not mean to be, but he was. He was of God’s party without knowing it.


This week, Tracey Roberts (Cumberland; Google Scholar) reviews A Half Century with the Internal Revenue Code, The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey (Carolina Academic Press 2022), edited by Lawrence A. Zelenak (Duke) and Ajay K. Mehrotra (Northwestern; Google Scholar)


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