Calling Citizen Writers and Poets
April 11, 2025Harold Kaplan entitled his essay on Madame Bovary 'the seriousness of comedy'. In his view, and that of other literary…
March 9, 2025The skeptical mode is the source of modernism's contempt for the human intellect. Or maybe it's better to say modernism's…
March 3, 2025In this series, I want to share my thoughts about Harold Kaplan's book, The Passive Voice1. Kaplan deals with several…
September 18, 2023Harold Kaplan said 'humanist aspirations' are the dominant American intellectual tradition. 1 But an abstract notion of democratic humanism is…
