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>America Has a Ruling Class Samuel Goldman – NYT There is so much to pick apart in this article. How to choose among all the falsities and misdirection would take too much time. But let me throw out a couple of quotes from it anyways. Ultimately, the change must come from the powerful themselves Admitting the fact of noblesse might help encourage the ideal of oblige. On the right, it tends to involve exaggerated machismo and embrace of working-class signifiers That skepticism becomes dangerous, though, when it pits an unconventional affect and good intentions against the practical demands o...

Abstract This essay looks at the history of the novel, starting from the influential postwar critical insistence on the importance of the novel as a nineteenth-century genre. It notes that this tradition singularly fails to take account of the history of the novel in antiquity–for clear ideological reasons. It then explores the degree to which the texts known as the novel from antiquity, such as Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe, Petronius’s Satyricon, or Heliodorus’s Aethiopica, constitute a genre. Although there is a great deal of porousness between different forms of prose in antiquity...