Archive - Allen’s Substack

S’not Me, Dad!

Vance, Musk, and the Family

Mar 10 •

February 2025

The boxer and the ballad singer

Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan

Feb 15 •

For the left, the sky is always falling

Feb 1 •

January 2025

Pygmalion, Perfection, and the Work of “My Fair Lady”

Jan 8 •

December 2024

Trump’s Cabinet:

“Angry vets,” social class, and contempt for the military

Dec 28, 2024 •

The wild life of the modern hermit

Dec 4, 2024 •

November 2024

Trump won? Cancel class!

Nov 23, 2024 •

October 2024

Go Hamas! Go Hezbollah!

What’s happened to Higher Ed?

Oct 23, 2024 •

September 2024

Trash Talk from Rap to “Rigoletto”

The dangerous games people play

Sep 28, 2024 •

Colonialism and Cary Grant

Soft feminism and "Madame Butterfly" (1932)

Sep 9, 2024 •

August 2024

Seat-of-the-pants Feminism

Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, & the Wife of Bath

Aug 25, 2024 •

The Even Hand of Mrs. Gaskell

& Virginia Woolf's view of domestic feminism

Aug 11, 2024 •

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