Gorman Beauchamp

October 19, 2023

Foisting Race upon Shakespeare’s Plays

Gorman Beauchamp is angered (and somewhat amused) that the work of the great Bard has now been scrutinized under the lens of antiracist ideology.

July 18, 2023

Two Good Words for Colonialism: Hong Kong

Gorman Beauchamp

A recent book about Hong Kong reminds a literary scholar of his time, fresh out of college, teaching English in the vibrant and spirited British colony.

Intellectual Freedom

January 10, 2023

The Bard’s God

Gorman Beauchamp

A review of "The Bard's God," by Gideon Rappaport, One Mind Good Press, 2022, pp. 514, $32 hardbound.

March 18, 2022

The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry: The Feminist Sop for Renaissance Drama

Gorman Beauchamp

Academic feminists go to some pretty strange lengths to ensure that female “writers” are well-represented in the literary canon of the Renaissance. Gorman Beauchamp considers the strange c......

December 27, 2021

A Liberal Takes on the Progressives

Gorman Beauchamp

A review of "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture," by Dan Kovalik, Hot Press, 2021, pp. 199, $24.99 hardcover.

February 25, 2021

Not Your Father’s Campus Anymore

Gorman Beauchamp

A review of Robert Boyers' "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies."

September 30, 2020

It is one thing when critics insist that racial identity is socially constructed and therefore acquired or discarded as one chooses. But it is quite another when they read black characters and racial......

Academic Questions

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