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Teaching Indian Law Again
Reminiscences on Learning and Teaching American Indian Law, 1987–2024 by Bryan H. Wildenthal (January 5, 2024) (Updated Sept. 12, 2024. See Copyright & Permissions Note on Vita & Contact page. Photo by the author: Texas Canyon, Arizona, Aug. 22, 2022.) The Spring 2024 semester (starting January 9), will be the 18th time I teach American Indian Law. I…
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Bullying in the Shakespeare Authorship Debate
by Bryan H. Wildenthal (August 28, 2023) (See Copyright & Permissions Note on Vita & Contact page.) Since my August 22 post mentioned the issue of online bullying in the context of the Shakespeare authorship debate — and related ad hominem attacks, mockery, personal denigration, and slander — this seems a good time to republish a short essay…
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Greene’s Groats-Worth of Wit: An Update
by Bryan H. Wildenthal (August 22, 2023) (See Copyright & Permissions Note on Vita & Contact page.) Since my July 29 post, I made the mistake of checking once at the “Oxfraud” Facebook page and was bemused to see Jay Hoster (of all people) joining the puerile pile-on of personal denigration of anyone daring to question the traditional…
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The Oxfraudsters Noticed Me
Should I Be Flattered? by Bryan H. Wildenthal (July 29, 2023) (See Copyright & Permissions Note on Vita & Contact page.) It seems the more truculent defenders of the traditional theory of Shakespeare authorship are paying much closer attention to skeptical arguments than most of us would have guessed. I’ve never had a Facebook account and generally avoid…
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The Strange Response to Winkler’s Book on Shakespeare
by Bryan H. Wildenthal (July 20, 2023) (See Copyright & Permissions Note on Vita & Contact page.) Table of Contents (Pagination refers to printable PDF here. For documentation or to explore further, see source memorandum here. Update: See July 29 post on responses to this essay.) Part 1. A Strange Panic Attack Given its dense and intimidating subject,…
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The Atlantic on Shakespeare in 2019
America’s Bravest Investigative Magazine Fumbles the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time by Bryan H. Wildenthal (July 10, 2023) (See Copyright & Permissions Note on Vita & Contact page.) (Prefatory Note: I want to highlight here a comment that appears later in this essay: “Independent journalism faces more and more economic threats and outright repression worldwide,…
The Skeptical Professor 