|
7.4
(Fall 2007)
A Taxonomy of North American Society’s Narratives of Catastrophe and
Dissolution
John
R. Harris
Space
Exploration, Technology, and the Possible
Futures of Humanity
Mark
Wegierski
The High Hills: Frederick Delius and the Secular Sublime
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
Invitation to Opposing Voyages
J.
S. Moseby
7.3
(Summer 2007)
The
New Berlioz: Musical High Romanticism in an Age of Technical and Ideological
Correctness
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
Orality
and Literacy Revisited: Beleaguered Allies Against the Technical Onslaught of
the Visual
John
R. Harris
Mark
Wegierski
Painting
Dick Tracy into Heaven
(poem)
Michael
H. Lythgoe
Still
Life (short story)
Fiona
MacAlistair
7.2
(Spring 2007)
Facilis
Descensus Averno,
Part II: A Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion and Social
Dissolution
John
R. Harris
Planet-Wide
Cultural Struggles Over Definitions of Freedom, Order, and Security Will
Determine the Shape of the Future
Mark
Wegierski
Drugged
Reality
Mark
Wegierski
Socratic
Method in Comp 101: Wringing Simple Truths from Complex Essays
Peter
Singleton
Continental
Shelf
J.
S. Moseby
Requiescat
Oriana Fallaci: A Poem, A Prayer
Peter
Singleton
7.1
(Winter 2007)
Religion
Against Itself:
The Revolt of the Elite
of the United
Church
of
Christ
Howard
S. Schwartz
Facilis
Descensus
Averno
, Part I
A
Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion
and Social Dissolution
John
R. Harris
Modernity
and the Machine:
Viewpoints on Technology and Society
and
(Postscript)
Interpreting
the Millennium: The Dilemma of Hypermodernity
Mark
Wegierski
And
Deliver Us from English
Mark
Notzon
The
Ghost of
Caesar’s Wife
Ivor
Davies
6.4
(Fall 2006)
Just
What Did Robin Hood Really DO for the Poor?
Jim
Stebinger
Realist
Fiction and the Femina Immolata: Comparative Literature on Trial
John
R. Harris
Work,
Holidays, Leisure, Recreation, and the Search for Meaning in Late Modernity
and
What
Remains Creative in the Heritage of Marx's Thought
Mark
Wegierski
An
Interview with Michael Lythgoe, Poet of Brass
John
Harris
That
That "That" Restricts... Rules for Snobby Fools
Staff
The
Show Goes On
J.
S. Moseby
6.3
(Summer 2006)
A
Synthetic Meditation on Baseball, Racism, Closed Systems, and
Spiritual
Rigor Mortis
John
R. Harris
Three
Poems from Troubled Lands
Ralph
S. Carlson
Pyotr’s
Long Short-Cut (fiction)
Peter
Singleton
Melville
and His Marxist Critics
Steve
Kogan
6.1-2
(Winter/Spring 2006)
“I,
Martian”: The
Autoscopy of
a Science
Fiction Addict
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
The
Narcissus Narcosis:
A Platonic Dialogue on
the Plight
of Culture in Contemporary Society
John
R. Harris
Traditionalist
Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy
and
Science
Fiction, Pop-Culture, and the World-Historical Crisis
Mark
Wegierski
Some
Highly Impolitic Thoughts on Cultural Decay, Peasantry,
and the Mexican Diaspora
Peter
Singleton
Night
Draft
J.
S. Moseby
Friedland,
from Confessions of the Creature
Gary
Inbinder
5.4
(Fall 2005)
The Post-Literate Student and the
Anti-Literate Academy: A Bad Match at a Crucial Moment
John R. Harris
A Dark Turn in the Pop-Culture:
"Bleak Future" and Occult-Horror
Subgenres in
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming
Mark Wegierski
Dark Futures in Gaming:
Some Further Explorations
Mark Wegierski
Teacher, Make Me Wise!
Staff
Four Poems
Michael H. Lythgoe
Career Year (short story)
J.S. Moseby
5.3
(Summer 2005)
How
Never to Write a "Scholarly Article": On Falling Afoul of
Academic Bigotry
John
R. Harris
Christian
Virtues in Star Trek (TOS)
Kim
Paffenroth
Star
Trek Cultural Vector and Hollywood Cash-Cow
Mark
Wegierski
Some
Thoughts on Herbert Marcuse vs. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Mark
Wegierski
Window
Without a View (short story)
Ivor
Davies
5.1-2
(Winter-Spring 2005)
True
Stories, by
Lev Razgon: Literature and the Soviet Genocide
Steve Kogan
The
False Conservatism of the Cynic's Utopia: Kant, Machiavelli, and Truthfulness
John R. Harris
Three
Essays for Students: On Topics Various and Sundry and Illustrative of Problems
Faced by Beginning Writers
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Deconstructing
Arthur
Gary
Inbinder
Two
Brief Essays on Politics, the Economy, and Western Culture
Mark
Wegierski
Reviews
of Recent Books Which Strive to Define Contemporary Culture
Mark
Wegierski
Reviews of Reuven Brenner, The
Financial Century: From Turmoils to Triumphs; Richard P. Nielsen, The
Politics of Ethics: Methods for Acting, Learning, and Sometimes; and Myron
Magnet, The Dream
and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to theUnderclass.
Poetry
Corner: Three Poems
The
Lost Karankawa and Catalogue
of Slips,
by David Adams;
Lost
Indictment,
by John Harris
Dry
Thaw (short story)
J.S. Moseby
4.4
(Fall 2004)
Can
Glory Blaze from the Void? Thoughts on the Tenuous Connection between
Painting and Literacy
John R. Harris
Putting
a Period to the "Quote" Issue
Staff
Have
Late Modern Values and Technology Made Great Art Impossible?
Mark Wegierski
War
on a Rainy Afternoon: Boardgames
and Myth-Making
Mark Wegierski
What
Are Historical Boardgames or Wargames? An Introduction
Paleocons
vs. Neocons in Board Wargames
Review
of the Magazine: GameFix: The Forum of Ideas and of "Near-Future
Conflict" boardgame Crisis 2000: Insurrection in the United States!
Review
of the "Near-Future Conflict" Boardgame, Minuteman: The Second
American Revolution
Fashion
Art and the Moral Imagination
Gary Inbinder
"The
Prize for the Race" (short story)
Ivor Davies
R.
S. Carlson and Michael Lythgoe: Four Poems Working,
Walking, and Well-Being
John R. Harris
Four
Poems in Paint
Jonathan Chaves
4.3
(Summer 2004)
Confessions
of a Symphomaniac: Of Luck, Music, and the Training of the Soul
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Three
Short Essays on Taste and Technology
"In
the New Millennium: Five Internet Visions from a Technoskeptic"; "Can
the Internet Challenge Today’s Informational and Cultural Monopoly?";
"For
a New Cultural Criticism"
Mark Wegierski
Five-Finger
Exercise for the Hairy Paw: How Music Might Rehabilitate Literacy
John R. Harris
Cosmic
Dualism, Moral Freedom, Teleology, and Natural Rights
Gary Inbinder
Teleology
and Music: Editor’s Postscript
John R. Harris
A
Generation X-er Declines to Defend Contemporary Music
Kelly Hampton
"The
Mendicant Professor Vows Poverty of Expression"
Jim Pangborn
"Reading
The Wall Street Journal" and "Imprints"
Michael Lythgoe
Two
Musical Italian Short Stories:
"The
Tympanist" by Aldo Camerino and "Music"
by Giovanni Guareschi
(translated by Gianna DiRoberti)
"Liminal
Negligence"
J.S. Moseby
4.2
(Spring 2004)
The Aesthetic
Crisis of Post-Literacy: How Lack of Finesse Feeds Moral Collapse
John R. Harris
The Judgment of
Paris
Gary Inbinder
A Young Person’s
Guide to Postmodernism
four polemical book reviews by
Paul
Sonnino
Goldsmith,
Blue and Green
review-essay by
Mark
Wegierski
Death Sentence:
The Decay of Public Language,
by Don Watson
reviewed by Margaret
Turnbull
Words in
Spring’s Hour Glass: Three Poems
Ralph S. Carlson
Terminal
Promotion (short story)
Ivor Davies
Dr. Palaver,
Word Therapist
4.1
(Winter 2004)
Pessimism au
Pied de la Lattre;
Ideological Illiteracy and the Vertical Invasion of the Barbarians
Thomas F. Bertonneau
Reviews of
Recent Books
The Skin of Culture:
Investigating the New Electronic Reality,
by
Derrick de Kerckhove
The Unconscious
Civilization, by John Ralston Saul
The Revolt of the Elites:
and the Betrayal of Democracy, by
Christopher Lasch
Political Theory for
Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death Contestations: Cornell Studies in
Political Theory, by John E. Seery
George Grant: A
Biography, by William Christian
reviewed by
Mark Wegierski
Recovered
Body, by Scott Cairns
reviewed by
Michael
H. Lythgoe
There is an
Isle: A Limerick Boyhood, by Criostoir O’Flynn
reviewed by
Peter Singleton
On Eternity and
Moral Reason: Why
Clocks Keep Ticking in Heaven
John R. Harris
El Día de Hoy
(short story)
Ivor
Davies
Santa’s Death
(poetry)
John R. Harris
3.4
(Fall 2003)
Daggerpoints and Loggerheads:
Intellectualism and the Decline of the West
John R. Harris
"And From Our Correspondent In…"
R.S. Carlson
To the Prophets: An Essay
on Romanticism
John D. Wright
Postscript to Essay on Romanticism:
Author and Editor Trade Thoughts
John Wright and John Harris
Translated Excerpts from Pierre
Lasserre’s Le Romantisme Français
Gianna DiRoberti
"Third Degree" (short
story
)Ivor
Davies
Life Via Electron: "Da News" and
"Prayers from Belgrade" (poetry)
R.S. Carlson
3.3
(Summer 2003)
Judges of the Past
Jonathan Chaves
Look Homeward, Angela
Staff
Daggerpoints and
Loggerheads: The Twentieth Century’s Fatal Division into
Ideological
Camps
John R. Harris
Transgressive
Technologies: Does a Posthuman Dystopia Await Us?
Mark Wegierski
"Diagnosis"
(poem)
R.S. Carlson
Four Poems by Michael H.
Lythgoe
Hommage à Baudelaire:
Three Prose Poems
John R. Harris
"White Cover" (short
story)
J.S. Moseby
Dr.
Palaver
3.2
(Spring 2003)
Kicking the
Stone and Viewing the Icon: Realist Epistemology Between Heaven and Earth
Jonathan Chaves
Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: A Sad Time’s Taste for Perverse Oppositions
John R. Harris
"Some Mornings
on the DMZ" and Other Poems
R.S. Carlson
War of the Worlds:
Post-Literate Reporting Meets the Ugliness of Truth
Peter Singleton
Spontaneous
Overflow
Ivor Davies
Star-Mangled Banner
Staff
Footprints
in the Snow of the Moon
J.S. Moseby
Common Sense
Strikes Out
Staff
3.1
(Winter 2003)
Foreign
Language and the Enemies of Literacy: An Addendum
John R. Harris
Koba the Dread:
Laughter and the Twenty Million,
by Martin
Amis
Reviewed by
Thomas F. Bertonneau
No More Mr. Nice
Guy for "Zero Tolerance"
Peter T. Singleton
Generation
X-Minus-One Goes to Hell in a Tenure Package
Staff
"Rings"
on the Screen: Peter Jackson’s Valiant Defense of Moral Coherence
Kelly Ann Hampton
Auto Focus
(movie review)
Mary Grabar
The
Forsytes Were Better in Hindsight
Staff
"Footprints
in the Snow of the Moon" (excerpt from novel)
J.S. Moseby
Dr. Palaver,
Word Therapist
2.4 (Fall
2002)
A Sampling of
Pronouncements from Our Cultural Elites
Steve Kogan
"So
Cool"
R.S. Carlson
Literature
and Literacy: The Decline of Reading and the Stultification of Student Prose
Thomas F. Bertonneau
"And Choice
of Sides or Pronoun"
R.S. Carlson
"From
a Safe Distance"
R.S. Carlson
Who Needs
Enemies? The Peculiar Struggle of Literary Studies at Christian-Affiliated
Colleges
John R. Harris
"Fish in a
Barrel"
Ivor Davies
2.3 (Summer
2002)
Thinking is Hard: How a Damaged LiteracyvHinders Students from
Coming to
Grips With Ideas
Thomas F. Bertonneau
The
Dusty, Dog-Eared Book: Space
Well Wasted
Peter T. Singleton
Post-Literacy,
Biblicism, and the Death of Christianity: Big
Party in the Wading Pool
John R. Harris
"Three
Sketches of Post-Social Society"
Fiona MacAlister
If It
Keeps Them Quiet, Is It True?
(Staff)
Dr.
Palaver, Word Therapist
Three
Poems
R.S. Carlson
Three
Poems
Michael H. Lythgoe
2.2 (Spring 2002)
The
Intimate Message of Foreign Language: One Small
Curricular Step Toward Restoring Reason
John R. Harris
It’s Been Said Before
(Jules Romains)
Staff
Bimbos in Limbo: Will
the Real Bobo Please Stand Up?
Gianna DiRoberti
William James Visits
Yosemite in 1898
and
Itinerary and
Chronology of William James’s California
Trip (August 1898)
Allan Shields
Pieta
Joseph Soldati
Who Shall ’Scape
Whipping?
Staff
R.S. Carlson: Three
Poems
Ralph Carlson
Seeing
Space
J. S. Moseby
Postscript to
Seeing Space: An Interview with
the Author Straight
Shaft
Ivor Davies
Watch on the Wry
Staff
Dr. Palaver, Word
Therapist
2.1 (Winter 2002)
Toward
Anthroponomy: How Western Culture
Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy
John
R. Harris
Academentia:
Making History
Mary Grabar
Clowning
with Cloning: Where
Clouds of Witness End and Cloudy Witlessness
Begins
Peter
Singleton
The
Anthropological and Psychological Origins of Political
Correctness… with Emphasis
on Howard Schwartz’s The
Revolt of the Primitive
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
Three
by R.S. Carlson
Ralph Carlson
Counsellor
Dan and Biddy Moriarty Have
a Go at Each Other
Staff
Postscript
to Tacitus
Giles
Maskell
Dr. Palaver, Word
Therapist
1.4 (Fall
2001)
Rest in Peace,
World Trade Center: Live
Unsettled, Mankind
Peter T. Singleton
Academentia:
Terror in the Tower
Mary Grabar
The Jargon of Mock
Ethnicity: Multiculturalism and Diversity as Virtual Thinking
Thomas F. Bertonneau
The Arduous Path Up
Spengler’s Decline: An Idealist Responds
to Destiny
John R. Harris
Two Notes on Boys and Men:
Why All the Fuss About
Alcibiades?
and
How Calamity Jane
Rewrote the [Her]story of the West
(staff)
"Alpha" Is
for "Acephalic"
(staff)
Nihilist’s
Progress: From Marx to Feminism to Misogyny
Gianna
DiRoberti.
Three by
R.S.
Carlson
Ralph Carlson
Running On Empty
J.S. Moseby
Dr. Palaver, Word
Therapist
"Holy
Warrior"
John R. Harris
1.3 (Summer 2001)
Breaking
Line at Payback Time: Victim-Ideology’s
Culture of Rage
Peter Singleton
Express
Train to 1929
Steve Kogan
No
"Middle" in Middle America, No
Aristotle in the Academy
Kelly Ann Hampton
Semper
Inutile:
In Praise of the Useless
John R. Harris
Three
Poems Under Clear Skies
Pantoum
for Gardeners (Michael H. Lythgoe)
Intimations
of Spirality (John R. Harris)
It's
Been Said Before (Jacques Barzun)
(staff)
Baseball
Strikes Out
(staff)
Dr.
Palaver, Word Therapist Contemporary
Antiquities
J.S. Moseby
To make a donation, address your check or money order to The
Center for Literate Values or to John
Harris (NOT to Praesidium) and
post to:
Praesidium
c/o John Harris, Editor
2707 Patriot Drive
Tyler
TX,
75701
...
or use the PayPal button at the top of this page.
*****
The Center for Literate Values
more
about us
| 
