I can’t come up with anything academic to write about today, so I’m going to do something I very rarely do on this blog or my old one: talk about…

On the Road slid into the American canon like a little boy under a garage door, running on pure energy and speed and getting there without anyone really thinking about…

Crévecoeur and the Two Faces of America The back of the Penguin edition of J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer says “History” on it, and…