Alex Donovan Cole is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. He is the author of "The Politics of Remembrance of Günter Grass" from Routledge.
Thomas Nipperdey began his magisterial history of modern Germany proclaiming, “in the beginning there was Napoleon.” In the popular conception of G. W. F. Hegel as a political philosopher, Nipperdey’s notion can be inverted: “In the end, there was Napoleon.” So many accounts of Hegel’s political philosophy begin
I was hooked. It wasn’t since I first saw Pulp Fiction on HBO that I was so enamored by a film. 1994’s Clerks on VHS shone forth to me a promise of a cinematic universe bound by pop culture ephemera and Star Wars references. Echoing many of the
It was as I recall in the form of a scroll, gold leaf and all. And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away. And my eyes still grow damp to see good old King George signed it with his own rubber stamp. Roger Waters,
In his magisterial history of postwar European history, aptly titled Postwar, Tony Judt writes, “Europe’s postwar history is a story shadowed by silences; by absence. The continent of Europe was once an intricate, interwoven tapestry of overlapping languages, religions, communities, and nations […] Between 1914 and 1945, that Europe was
In 2002, an unassuming and simple website operating out of Utah outpaced the online traffic of major companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Microsoft.[1] By 2017, the same site’s articles averaged about 200,000 views; respectable, but hardly rivaling the aforementioned corporate giants. The story of Maddox and “The
Arendt’s wisdom provides a unique of understanding the spectre haunting the American university – the spectre of protest. Across the country, universities have erupted in largely non-violent, very public protests. Aligning themselves with groups such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, the new American protest culture is intimately
Al Franken is a strange hero for a 14-year-old in a petit-bourgeoisie household to have. Even stranger is the indifference felt by that same 14-year-old 13 years later when Al Franken resigned from the Senate in disgrace amongst well-documented accusations of sexual assault. Al Franken was a fixture in my
In mid-March of 1969, John Kennedy Toole visited Milledgeville, Georgia, the home of famous southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor. By the end of the month, Toole committed suicide via gas asphyxiation. Such a story would lack resonance and significance if Toole was not the author of one of the