Category Archives: Military

Damnatio Memoriae Sevaniae

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

A year or so ago, I had an exchange with the United Daughter of the Confederacy about the monument to CSA General Edmund Kirby-Smith on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, where I teach. My … Continue reading →

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Protected: What’s in a Place-name?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: What hidden scorn you must have for yourself

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Uncomely and Broken

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Interview with Chrigel Glanzmann of Eluveitie

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

Below is an exchange I had recently with Chrigel Glanzmann, the lead singer of Eluveitie, the Swiss folk metal band on whose work I’m writing I’ve written an essay (comparing it to Charles Gleyre’s “The Romans Going Under the Yoke”).  … Continue reading →

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Sight and Sounds of the Monteagle Flea Market, late June 2015

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

The man selling homemade pork rinds is telling a customer, “Oh yeah, Obama’s got this country all screwed up. It’s gonna be World War Three.” I assume he’s talking about the Supreme a Court’s recent ruling on gay marriage, but … Continue reading →

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The Butt-Millet Fountain, A Memorial Hidden in Plain Sight

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

I have written before about Major Archibald Butt, a notable alumnus of Sewanee who died heroically aboard the Titanic.  That’s him to the right, together with President Taft, from a stained glass window in All Saints’ Chapel which commemorates the … Continue reading →

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Orwell against mistreatment of prisoners

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

My last post concernted St. George as an avenger for justice, and in this month, as we process the Senate’s release of the Torture Report, another English George with similar convictions comes to mind. From an unpublished letter of George Orwell … Continue reading →

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The Eroticism of the Gettysburg Address

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

The androgyne of Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Republic is a deeply comic myth on the nature of eros, one that has been put to music in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (see below). I have long wondered whether the strange … Continue reading →

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Protected: Radical Visions of Hector?

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Bye Bye Burdies?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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