I'll be off tomorrow to speak at the Spring 2012 Political Theory Symposium at Duke University on "Utopia, Dystopia, and the Problem of Technology."

Before then, a couple of news items:


* My completed essay "From Both Sides Now: Lois McMaster Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon" has been accepted officially for Forward Momentum: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Lois McMaster Bujold, edited by Janet B. Croft and due out from McFarland later this year.


* Another of my film shorts sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies and produced by Ozymandius Media has debuted on YouTube. This one includes a dramatic reading. Ralph Waldo Emerson love! Here 'tis...



My others in this series are as follows:
* The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
* Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History
* Andrew Jackson: The First Imperial President

"However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the oppressor."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson to President Martin Van Buren