Wow, I didn't realize that I hadn't accounted for my "progress" for three weeks… I can't blame it all on a root canal now, can I? (But I'll certainly try.) Let's see… I had a article at The Good Men Project each Friday (let's hope I can keep this up!): "Captain America Is the Best…

Answer: lotsa blogging and popular writing, and dealing with departmental stuff as chair, but alas no progress on book projects… Wrote two pieces for The Good Men Project: my first original article, "How Professional Women Can Objectify Men (and Why Waitresses Don't)" (as of this writing, the most popular page on the site, with a…

I thought it might be nice to post here every Friday on what I did the previous week, both for my readers (reader, maybe) and for myself… Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews published a review of The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination; see the review here and my write-up on it here. I wrote…

I came across this terrific blog post by Carol Borden at The Cultural Gutter, comparing Catman (from Gail Simone's tragically cancelled Secret Six series) to Batman, as well as to Dexter from the Showtime series. Not having watched Dexter (but intrigued after reading her post), I was more interested in what she had to say…

Well, it's been a while since I established this site–feels like I'm still moving in! Setting up this site to replace my college site has taken longer than I thought, but some of the book pages are up, the bio is up (but will be revised), the articles/chapters page still needs to include op-eds and popular…

Maybe It’s Just Me, But… (at Psychology Today) A mix of ethics and self-help, especially with regard to relationships, plus some discussions of interesting new papers in philosophy and law. I have fortunate to have wonderful, thoughtful readers who challenge me and often suggest topics for future posts. See here for an index of posts at this…

I realize that criticizing any entertainment ratings system is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I can't resist… From Dan Didio and Jim Lee's post at The Source: E – EVERYONE Appropriate for readers of all ages. May contain cartoon violence and/or some comic mischief. T – TEEN Appropriate for readers age 12 and…

Since the URL for this blog is so unwieldy (having been set up under the account I set up for my academic blog), I celebrated the new year by acquiring a custom URL: http://www.comicsprofessor.com/ The old URL and links are still valid, but all new links will use this simpler URL, which I hope will…

From his Newsarama interview about becoming the new regular penciller on The Outsiders and his over-the-top, Keith Giffen gives his opinion on the "seriousness" of modern comics: I just think we really, really, really gotta, you know, pull our heads out of our asses and realize that we can have so much fun with this…

Jonathan B. Wight I’m a supporter of health care reform, largely for utilitarian reasons. Expanding access to health insurance will (in theory) lead to greater prevention, and more kids will be covered in the womb and in infancy—when critical brain development happens. That is a good thing for promoting long run economic growth, and will…