Not A Scholar

In another of the Mythos lectures, Campbell asserts that there are two concepts of God. The first kind of God, the kind he approves of, beli...

I recently watched Mythos – a series of (apparently amateur) recordings of lectures which Joseph Campbell himself gave towards the end of hi...

Shortly before Star Wars (and shortly after the Eternals) there was rather a good comedy series on Radio 4. You may remember it. You've ...

Had Jack Kirby read Joseph Campbell? He might have done. He was one of those autodidacts who read un-systematically and uncritically absorbe...

Jack Kirby had pretty much created Marvel Comics in the 1960s. But the organisation has and had deeply ambivalent attitude to its founding f...

When I got to college, I discovered that this sort of thing was a positive menace. It kept sprouting up in out of date academic lit crit tex...

When I was in the lower sixth form, I accidentally invented structuralism. I was writing one of those lit crit essays you had to do for ...

"I know that astrology isn't a science...of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis....