I guess the brass knew what FAFO meant, after all.
I think, in grunt speak, this is called getting torn a new asshole. thttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/20/lost-us-generals-senior-officers-say-trust-hegseth-evaporated/
‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...
www.washingtontimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I guess the brass knew what FAFO meant, after all.
The new issue of the American Book Review is now out! americanbookreview.org/focus-failur...
Focus: Failure -- Summer 2025 • American Book Review
Rejection is the universe’s way of affirming one’s existence, an unavoidable—but sometimes tonic—part of life.
americanbookreview.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The new issue of the American Book Review is now out! americanbookreview.org/focus-failur...
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extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.
A nice review of my "Mismeasure of Orcs" book in the Journal of Tolkien Research: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien’s Demonized Creatures (2025), by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Book review, by Andrew Higgins, of The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien’s Demonized Creatures (2025), by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
scholar.valpo.edu
October 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A nice review of my "Mismeasure of Orcs" book in the Journal of Tolkien Research: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
Remembering Fredric Jameson, who died one year ago today. spectrejournal.com/the-generosi...
The Generosity of Fredric Jameson – Spectre Journal
Robert T. Tally pays tribute to Fredric Jameson's tremendous generosity, that is, the late theorist's drive to both know the world and change it for the better.
spectrejournal.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Remembering Fredric Jameson, who died one year ago today. spectrejournal.com/the-generosi...
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was published on Sept. 21, 1937. Almost exactly 85 years later, my critical study of that novel appeared. Coincidence? Well, yes, but still, you should read it! www.amazon.com/J-Tolkiens-H...
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit": Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon)
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon) [Tally Jr., Robert T.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon)
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September 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was published on Sept. 21, 1937. Almost exactly 85 years later, my critical study of that novel appeared. Coincidence? Well, yes, but still, you should read it! www.amazon.com/J-Tolkiens-H...
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stimulating conversation with blake oetting from january just finally came out in november mag! www.novembermag.com/content/anna...
September 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
stimulating conversation with blake oetting from january just finally came out in november mag! www.novembermag.com/content/anna...
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Many thanks to Robert T. Tally Jr. for joining us for a special session on A Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures! It was great to hear some of this critical text and have a discussion with its author.
#VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA #UnabashedOrcSympathizer
#VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA #UnabashedOrcSympathizer
September 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Many thanks to Robert T. Tally Jr. for joining us for a special session on A Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures! It was great to hear some of this critical text and have a discussion with its author.
#VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA #UnabashedOrcSympathizer
#VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA #UnabashedOrcSympathizer
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I talk about Zombie Apocalypse in this podcast -- I get the first 17 minutes or so -- which also features Texas State professors with expertise in diseases and fungi, respectively. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Fungi, Disease, and the Zombie Apocalypse
Podcast Episode · Enlighten Me · 08/28/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I talk about Zombie Apocalypse in this podcast -- I get the first 17 minutes or so -- which also features Texas State professors with expertise in diseases and fungi, respectively. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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This is a great summary of all that befalls us under the MAGA mafia regime.
My latest in Field Notes on the decay and demise of the modern state as we knew it
brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...
brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...
The Suicide State | The Brooklyn Rail
In an illuminating account of a recent Department of Homeland Security job fair, Yanis Varoufuckice relates an encounter with a gaggle of fresh Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruits looki...
brooklynrail.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This is a great summary of all that befalls us under the MAGA mafia regime.
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A fantastic review of Bruce Robbins's recent works by @roberttally.bsky.social, with, of course, some Jameson woven in.
The Politics of Criticism and the Criticism of Politics
Abstract. As practiced, literary and culture criticism is always in some sense metacritical—that is, finding itself inevitably drawn to discussing its own conditions of possibility. Bruce Robbins's Cr...
read.dukeupress.edu
August 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A fantastic review of Bruce Robbins's recent works by @roberttally.bsky.social, with, of course, some Jameson woven in.
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Final installment of The Jameson Tapes. Your guide to becoming an “ideological lexicologist”!
"Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson
1977 Institute On Culture & Society
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Final installment of The Jameson Tapes. Your guide to becoming an “ideological lexicologist”!
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incredible pedagogy, kid!
August 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
incredible pedagogy, kid!
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👇 🫵 👉 🎧 👍 🫶
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
👇 🫵 👉 🎧 👍 🫶
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NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
Honored to be among the folks talking about Jameson on the new American Vandal podcast episode! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Honored to be among the folks talking about Jameson on the new American Vandal podcast episode! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
Hey Poe fans! My brief piece "On Poe's Late Style," examining his handful of tales published in 1849, is now out. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Project MUSE - On Poe’s Late Style
muse.jhu.edu
July 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hey Poe fans! My brief piece "On Poe's Late Style," examining his handful of tales published in 1849, is now out. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Speaking of Orcs, the new book is on sale: save six bucks! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
The Mismeasure of Orcs – McFarland
mcfarlandbooks.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Speaking of Orcs, the new book is on sale: save six bucks! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
Such an honor to appear on the American Vandal podcast, where I talk Tolkien. (The whole episode is amazing, but I start around the 1:18:00 mark.)
In today's episode: @profdgd.bsky.social's exegesis of J.D. Vance's Thanksgiving meme, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @jdconnor.bsky.social reassess their 2018 review of "Hillbilly Elegy," @roberttally.bsky.social shows us how to read for redemption not resentment, & more.
Spitesgiving in Flyover Country (A Tale of Today, Episode #21)
with J.D. Connor, Douglas Dowland, Samuel Freedman, Dan Sinykin, Robert Tally, and Andie Tucher
theamericanvandal.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Such an honor to appear on the American Vandal podcast, where I talk Tolkien. (The whole episode is amazing, but I start around the 1:18:00 mark.)
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extremely fun to chat with @michaelburns.bsky.social this afternoon!
July 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
extremely fun to chat with @michaelburns.bsky.social this afternoon!
Amazon has the "read sample" enabled for the new Orc book, so the the Preface and Introduction are available. www.amazon.com/Mismeasure-O...
The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures
Amazon.com: The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures: 9781476694351: Tally Jr., Robert T.: Books
www.amazon.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Amazon has the "read sample" enabled for the new Orc book, so the the Preface and Introduction are available. www.amazon.com/Mismeasure-O...
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Here's some deeper context for Robert Reich's little article on the dangers of Peter Thiel's Palantir. Tolkien isn't just a weird, little in-joke to Silicon Valley's techno-fascist broligarchs. americanid.substack.com/p/why-so-wei...
Why so Weird about Tolkien?
The Founder Fantasies of Silicon Valley
americanid.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Here's some deeper context for Robert Reich's little article on the dangers of Peter Thiel's Palantir. Tolkien isn't just a weird, little in-joke to Silicon Valley's techno-fascist broligarchs. americanid.substack.com/p/why-so-wei...
I'm thrilled to have been able to talk about Tolkien, Orcs, Marxism, and politics with the guys on the Entmoot Podcast. (And talk I did! It goes on for a little over two hours!) Check it out, if you have some time. shows.acast.com/entmootpod/e...
The Mismeasure of Orcs (w/ Robert Tally) | The Entmoot Podcast
shows.acast.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I'm thrilled to have been able to talk about Tolkien, Orcs, Marxism, and politics with the guys on the Entmoot Podcast. (And talk I did! It goes on for a little over two hours!) Check it out, if you have some time. shows.acast.com/entmootpod/e...