Lift Every Voice and Swing: A Review
Matthew O. Skrod reviews Professor Vaughn Booker’s recent, innovative study of jazz and African American religious authority.
Arts & Culture
The Right to Bear Arms: A Review
This divergence between the right to possess and carry around a weapon as expressed in the Constitution and its recognition (or lack thereof) by individual states serves as the topic of The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of People or a Privilege of the Working Class?, the newest analysis of Second Amendment history by noted appellate lawyer and scholar Stephen Halbrook.
Buckley, Yale, and The Dartmouth Review
Matthew O. Skrod reflects on William F. Buckley’s first book, seventy years on, and comments on the present state of affairs at Dartmouth.
Review Reviews: Telluride Comes to Dartmouth
Matthew O. Skrod reviews the six films screened at Dartmouth in September 2021 following their appearance at the Telluride Film Festival earlier in the month.
The Aesthetic of Erasure
I have only recently begun to do my studying in the East Reading Room. In terms past, I have preferred to work in the older,…
Gems of a Bygone Era: Rauner’s Classic Film Script Collection
Matthew O. Skrod investigates the formidable Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Script Collection at Rauner Library.
Black Samson: Dr. Nyasha Junior and Dr. Jeremy Schipper Reflect on an Overlooked Icon
Samson, the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites according to the Hebrew Bible, wears a modern face in Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon by Dr. Jeremy Schipper and Dr. Nyasha Junior.
First Duty: A Review
In an age of iron triangles and revolving doors, impossible-to-audit defense budgets and “national security professionals,” does the quality and character of the middle-aged man…
Dr. Kiarina Kordela and the Comrades of the Melancholic Revolution
On Thursday, April 8th, the Society of Fellows hosted a remote lecture via Zoom delivered by Dr. Kiarina Kordela entitled “Biopower From Here to Eternity.”
Accountable: A Review
My reading of Warren Valdmanis and Michael O’Leary’s Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism, could not have come at a better time. Valdmanis, a Dartmouth…