“…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 […]
S&R Honors Malala Yousafzai
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: S&R Honors an icon of artistic vision, diversity and self-awareness
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 […]
S&R Honors: the Blues Boy, BB King
“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. […]
Mr. Spock is dead: RIP Leonard Nimoy
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 IV: ave Horatius, Scrogue exemplarium…
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 […]
S&R Honors: Edmund Blackadder
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. […]
Jeremy Paxman vs Richard Nixon: the alternative reality that never was (S&R Honors)
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 […]
Generation X, whatever, nevermind: reflecting on Kurt Cobain
No one could possibly be THE voice of Gen X, but Cobain was certainly A voice of my generation. In their seminal 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, published in 1993, Neil […]
Kurt Cobain: If you read you’ll judge
He never surrendered. Let me tell you about Kurt Cobain. In the fourth grade we had to do these stupid aerobics gym classes, plastic pink green black steps, Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” pounding […]
