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  • The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read

    The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read0

    My wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality on “the farm.” (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.)   Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it

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  • The Exceptional Catalog of American Polling Failures

    The Exceptional Catalog of American Polling Failures0

    The question looms in nearly every U.S. presidential election, even in this year’s race: Could the polls be wrong? If they are, they likely will err in unique fashion. The history of election polling says as much. That history tells of no greater polling surprise than what happened in 1948, when President Harry Truman defied

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  • The Evolution of King Arthur

    The Evolution of King Arthur3

    The early trailers for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) were released last (northern) summer, which means my favourite season in life as a medievalist academic is coming: the season of The Truth About King Arthur. It doesn’t matter if the movie itself is good or bad: the question I will be

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  • The Everyman Election the Pollsters Didn’t See Coming

    The Everyman Election the Pollsters Didn’t See Coming0

    ‘Can you hear me now?’ should be the headline. Establishment, inside, elite politicians and media have heard and are still stunned. They don’t quite know yet what to make of the results of Election 2016 in America because as of the moment this is being written, the results aren’t yet fully in. But from what

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  • The Euro-American Roots of Pumpkin Spice

    The Euro-American Roots of Pumpkin Spice14

    Pumpkin spice and everything nice, that’s what basic white girls are made of! She’s wearing plaid, cute boots, and walking through autumn leaves to a pumpkin patch or apple orchard. And most importantly, come mid-October, she’s unabashedly carrying the unmistakable takeout coffee cup filled with pumpkin spice latte. She is also hailed as laughable, ditzy,

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  • The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’

    The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’2

    It’s 2 a.m. and Claire has been stuck at a red light for five minutes. She knows that it’s against the law to run a red light. However, no other cars are in sight, and it seems ridiculous to wait for the light to turn green. Should she run the red light and continue her

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