Hoist On His Own Petard – James Bowden

In the mid 1980s, I was the associate director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, a job furnished by Indiana University and the Polish government, the first of which sent me there in exchange for Warsaw sending to IU Bloomington an associate director of Polish Studies.

Mensa – James Bowden

Perhaps he was slumming a bit when he went to the Mensa meeting, but he was between wives as they say, and thus he had nothing better to do with his Saturday evenings than had they.

A Sense of History – James Bowden

“No one will say that a lively sense of history is one of the intellectual virtues of the American people,” wrote Lionel Trilling in his introduction to 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦, a collection of very high-level essays on Great Books of the Western Tradition.