The kamikaze gays

The kamikaze gays

MY LESBIAN FRIENDS are amongst the most sober, intelligent commentators when it comes to the state of today’s same-sex-attracted community. Once the preserve of those infrequent, supposedly perfidious souls that were historically ostracised by society for their...
The ivory tower poltroons

The ivory tower poltroons

“Et tu, Brute?” WHEN I WAS STUDYING Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar back in high school, my teacher Dr. Scott Wilson took great pains to impress upon us schoolchildren that the emphasis lay on the Latin word ‘tu’ because it conveyed the Roman dictator’s incredulity that...
A tale of two citizenries

A tale of two citizenries

THE TRADITION of advancement through the ranks of academia has for decades been tied to a path of self-declared intellectual productivity whose currency is frequent and impactful publication in the literature. This I learned early on, when pursuing my doctoral...