Using the side menu, you can view the posts by category, by month (using the View Commentary by Month dropdown), or by using the keyword search field.
Authors: Commentary posts were authored primarily by EL@M faculty, with a smaller number of posts by guest authors and EL@M staff. At present, here is how authorship is indicated on this site:
- Ned Foley’s posts show an author of “foley.33” and are also tagged as “Free & Fair”
- The rest of the posts show Gillian Thomson, incorrectly, as the author because she migrated all of content. The true author’s name appears at the top of the post.
- EL@M staff and guest authors are further identified by the title they indicated at the time the post was originally created. These titles rarely reflect the author’s current title.
- EL@M faculty (current and past) are identified only by name. Please see this AUTHOR page for the titles and bios that accompanied their posts at the time they were originally created.
Tags: Commentary posts have been tagged by year. A few special topics also got their own tags because they had originally been grouped together. In the mid-2000s, EL@M posted on a weekly basis – calling the posts “Weekly Comment,” a title that continued to be used even after consistent, weekly posting had ceased.
Hyperlinks: Select hyperlinks have been updated so that they point to the same content as originally intended. Most hyperlinks in Commentary posts no longer point to an active page.
Dates/Times: The date of the post aligns with the date it was originally posted. The time of the post does not.