Happy Thanksgiving from the staff at Scholars & Rogues.
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. […]
Best Internet responses to latest John Boehner asshaberdashery? BuzzFeed props our own Alex Palombo
Yep. Check out #5. Sic ’em, Alex.
Solstice greetings from Scholars & Rogues

A word about S&R’s comment policy
Periodically we find ourselves needing to remind everyone about our comment policy, which is quite a bit different from what you find on other sites. This isn’t a problem for a vast […]
Better and betterer: the new and improved S&R

Hi folks. I wanted to take a moment to tell you about some changes here at S&R that we think you might like. The first one you probably already noticed: we’ve tweaked […]
Watching my dad die

My dad, David White, died on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM. I found out the time later–I didn’t think to look at the clock when it happened. He died after […]
S&R to open new Pacific Northwest Bureau
New York City. London. Oxford. Washington, DC. Western New York. Western North Carolina. Cleveland. The Upper Peninsula. Chicagoland/Indiana. Montana. Denver/Boulder. Owing to the fact that a majority of the founders either live […]
S&R makes major change to commenting policy

Once upon a time I could be counted on to say something like “the comment thread is often the most important part of a blog post.” When you have an intelligent community […]
Byron’s birthday…one myth debunked…and replaced by another….
I’ve written several appreciations of Lord Byron, our first Scrogue, over the years for S&R. In one of these, entitled, “Byron’s Birthday,” I mentioned that his lordship’s heart was buried in Greece. Today I received […]