Professor Greg Russell
@profgrussell.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor, U. Oklahoma, books/articles/chapters on Hans Mogenthau, JQ Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Machiavelli, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Kennan, Eric Voegelin
Interests: Political Biographies, Victorian Leaders.
Interests: Political Biographies, Victorian Leaders.
Hamnet and Hamlet!
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Hamnet and Hamlet!
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Looks like the Skipper and Gilligan are at it again!
December 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Looks like the Skipper and Gilligan are at it again!
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Uh oh, he’s back!
August 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Uh oh, he’s back!
Perhaps the Sooner State is on tap to host a detainee Gulag.
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Perhaps the Sooner State is on tap to host a detainee Gulag.
A life well lived!
August 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A life well lived!
Looks like the ill-effects of a self-hypnosis charade organized by shady charlatans.
July 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Looks like the ill-effects of a self-hypnosis charade organized by shady charlatans.
Never forget the appeasers, capitulators, cowards, and sundry sellouts on Capitol Hill.
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Never forget the appeasers, capitulators, cowards, and sundry sellouts on Capitol Hill.
The “corrupt bargain” of 1824 and, then something of a different encore 200 years later.
June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The “corrupt bargain” of 1824 and, then something of a different encore 200 years later.
Low riding on a recon and always alert for interlopers and enemies at the gate.
June 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Low riding on a recon and always alert for interlopers and enemies at the gate.
At the Pentagon, we may be seeing the reincarnation of General “Buck” Turgidson in real time!
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
At the Pentagon, we may be seeing the reincarnation of General “Buck” Turgidson in real time!
We may be seeing the reincarnation of General “Buck” Turgidson in real time!
May 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We may be seeing the reincarnation of General “Buck” Turgidson in real time!
We may be seeing the reincarnation of General “Buck” Turgidson in real time!
May 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We may be seeing the reincarnation of General “Buck” Turgidson in real time!
Oops, momentarily mistook him for Gert Frobe!
May 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Oops, momentarily mistook him for Gert Frobe!
He and Henry’s crowd finish out the series, here in the United States of Amnesia, beginning this evening on PBS with “The Mirror and the Light.” Rylance is a superb craftsman!
March 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
He and Henry’s crowd finish out the series, here in the United States of Amnesia, beginning this evening on PBS with “The Mirror and the Light.” Rylance is a superb craftsman!
Trump’s stilted homage to Schumer brings to mind Alexander Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, dealing with the propensity to damn with faint praise. Can click on below for the relevant verse.
March 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Trump’s stilted homage to Schumer brings to mind Alexander Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, dealing with the propensity to damn with faint praise. Can click on below for the relevant verse.
Trump’s stilted homage to Schumer brings to mind Alexander Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, dealing with the propensity to damn with faint praise. Can click on below for the relevant verse.
March 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trump’s stilted homage to Schumer brings to mind Alexander Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, dealing with the propensity to damn with faint praise. Can click on below for the relevant verse.
And….Hospitality Hour later in day here.
February 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
And….Hospitality Hour later in day here.
Not to miss a timely investigation about Russians testing space weapons on the dark side of the Moon!
February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Not to miss a timely investigation about Russians testing space weapons on the dark side of the Moon!
Balmy 9 degree morning in conversation with roundtable as to whether PM Clement Attlee bore some physical resemblance (as Orwell apparently thought) to V. Lenin, plus a bit of here and there on the Red Flag.
February 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Balmy 9 degree morning in conversation with roundtable as to whether PM Clement Attlee bore some physical resemblance (as Orwell apparently thought) to V. Lenin, plus a bit of here and there on the Red Flag.