Fencing Bear at Prayer

Welcome to my Random Laypersons ! Welcome to the VFM, welcome to the Dread Ilk, welcome to the Reprehensibles, welcome to the Unauthorized , and welcome to the Bears!  This is the History Course you have been waiting for!  Or, rather, it will be, as soon as I get some feedback from you. I was greatly encouraged when Vox asked you the other night about whether you would be interested in such a course and so many of you said, “Yes—as long as it is real  history!” As Fencing Bear would put it, “ Three cheers !”  We are thinking about having a video a week, starting this summer.  The first question that I have is about format. What kind of format would make for a good course online?  What I do not want is to have these videos simply be lectures, the canonical professor-talks-while-the-students-doze lectures you get in the movies before the professor starts encouraging the students to stand on their desks.   I wan...

My first solo podcast as a YouTuber! My guest is Joseph Dobrian, author of Willie Wilden, Ambitions, and Hard-Wired . We talk about his new book Feldy’s Girl , a campus novel set in the late 1960s. Teresa Feldevert is the daughter of the football coach and a good Catholic girl who finds herself caught up in the campus politics of the late 1960s. How does she navigate being one of the boys in the midst of the sexual revolution, racial tensions, and campus protests against the Vietnam war? My YouTube channel: Fencing Bear at Prayer . Complete list of my podcast, radio, and video appearances:  Bear On Air .

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I say, no! It has a Christianity problem. Let me explain... Listen here ! For a complete list of my podcast, radio, and YouTube appearances, go here .

Talking with Robert Vaughan of Just Right Media about the blog post that started it all and what it has been like for me cheering for white men—and Western civilization. Watch here . For a complete list of my podcast, video, and radio appearances, go here .

The bears are so excited! We made the Sunday New York Times ! Look, look, look! They are talking about us! Well, me— Fencing Bear ! But Professor Rachel Fulton Brown  gets a mention, too! And Milo ! And Vox Day ! (The relevant passage with better links.) The idea of medieval studies as a haven for white nationalist ideas gained ground when Rachel Fulton Brown, an associate professor of medieval history at the University of Chicago, began feuding with Dorothy Kim, an assistant professor of medieval English literature at Brandeis, after Dr. Kim, writing on Facebook, highlighted an old blog post of Dr. Fulton Brown’s titled “ Three Cheers for White Men ,” calling it an example of “ medievalists upholding white supremacy .”  Many scholars were outraged when Dr. Fulton Brown, in a riposte to Dr. Kim written a few weeks after Charlottesville, tagged the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos, whose website then ran an article about the dispute . Last July Mr. Yiannopoulos fo...

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