Curtis Bowman

I Just Updated My Academic Autobiography

As promised, I just updated my academic autobiography. The new material covers the past thirteen months or so.

To summarize the main developments, I've been making good progress on my Wagner translation, but, unfortunately, I'll soon have to have another surgery, which will delay my work for who knows how long.

Robert Kuttner on the Political Success and Economic Failure of Neoliberalism

Robert Kuttner tells the depressing tale of neoliberalism's political success (for the world's elites) and economic failure (for everyone else).

I've always regarded neoliberalism as obvious plutocratic drivel, so that it managed to find any measure of favor among genuinely serious people of any political persuasion has never ceased to amaze me.

Then Again, Maybe I Can't Get This Thing Going Again

More than a year ago I optimistically posted that it seemed that I would soon be able to resume more regular blogging. Well, this is only my third post since then. So, obviously, I haven't been able to get this thing going again, at least not yet.

I'm in the process of updating my academic autobiography. Once that is done, I'll give some thought to explaining where my scholarly work is leading me these days. But I probably won't post anything on that subject until August.

Adam Serwer on the Illiberal Right's Turn Against Democracy

It's good to see that more journalists are acknowledging the illiberal views of contemporary conservatism as it continues to turn against democracy.

Here's an excellent article on the subject by Adam Serwer.