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Whoever produced this headline, for a story in The Wall Street Journal about fake celebrity MySpace profiles, is a total genius: Potemkin V...

Following up on something I wrote on the PopMatters blog about George Eliot, here's a paper where I argue about how her jealousy of beau...

Here's a paper I wrote about Middlemarch in 1998: In the epigraph to chapter 64 of Middlemarch, the two gentlemen discuss power and resp...

I think no other rock song has suffered more from being licensed for use in commercials. But even if it didn't make you think of your lo...

Coming up with "The Fireman" as his nom de plume for this. Genius.

It's Ram reimagined as lushly orchestrated and cleverly arranged instrumentals. Why? Genius.

"Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power...