by Jon Epstein It is not surprising that there have been some listeners that assume that the HayMarket Riot band logo is in some way an offense to American minorities due to […]
Scholars & Rogues honors the “Fifth Beatle” “He enabled their ideas to pour forth, providing the electronic effects, the string quartets, the cor anglaise, the trumpets and piccolos, that helped the Beatles […]
“…if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point […]
By choosing to empower herself, her friends, and her fellow children, Malala poses an imminent threat to governments and power structures which operate without the informed consent of the governed. “All I […]
Audre Lorde taught us that power begins with knowing and accepting ourselves. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but […]
“Muddy Waters was born near Rolling Fork, Mississippi. And to me he’s a Mississippi person that went to Chicago and play[ed]. John Lee Hooker was born in Mississippi and went to Detroit. […]
Leonard Nimoy passed away today at age 83. I read that he was taken to the hospital last Thursday with a possible heart attack, so I am not completely surprised. I am, […]
Horace, like any admirable figure, seeks both to model – and teach – what excellence is in his field…. We end our review of The Works of Horace as translated into English […]
Scholars & Rogues has been around for seven and a half years or so, and during that time we have evolved. Early on we were a political blog with a culturalist bent. […]
In an alternative universe Jeremy Paxman, not David Frost, interviewed Richard Nixon in 1977. David Frost became an extremely successful comedian. His tours with Monty Python are celebrated to this day. Jeremy Paxman […]
