Matthew’s criticism of St. Patrick’s Day is well taken, and as someone who’s given to teasing my...
Month: March 2010
St. Patrick’s Day is America’s favorite ethnic holiday. It is also the strangest. In a calendar crowded...
The League’s official NCAA tournament group is now up and running. Unfortunately, you have to register at...
Much ado has been blogged about Emily Howell, the computer program that writes Bach chorales , Mozart...
Stephen Walt thinks that the latest spat between Israel and the US is grounds for bringing back...
One of the ways I differ from the typical gay-activist blogger (aside from being a shameless free-marketeer)...
To compensate for all our highbrow talk of philosophy, the classics, French cinema, and Battlestar Galactica, I’m...
Below I talk with Ordinary Gentleman David Schaengold about the remarkable work of the recently deceased director...
I recommend Br. Brafford’s post on non-foundationalism for the layman, but I find his treatment of Thomas...
Provoked by a great Battlestar Galactica-Sabotage mash-up, Sonny Bunch gets curmudgeonly about remix culture. The ensuing comment...
{Note: I wasn’t planning to post this because it’s a bit rambling and digressive. But, I realized...
I’m reading Thomas Kuhn’s controversial classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which Kuhn put forward, among...
Kieran Healy won’t be playing chatroulette anymore. Which is sort of a pity, because I haven’t laughed...
I just had to let you know how I feel: The album version is also excellent:
Will has highlighted the growth of anti-Wilson sentiment on the left and the right. Writing in Democracy,...
Kyle writes: [F]or decades, we’ve allowed students in need to get federally subsidized loans to attend both...
Rick Hess makes a great deal of sense in his critique of Diane Ravitch (and this bit...
Tension between libertarian-leaning tea partiers and the GOP’s social conservative base was probably inevitable, but the most...
Via email, I’ve been asked my thoughts on tenure and the troubles it can cause, so I’d...
Birmingham’s new library is billing itself as “a palazzo of human thought.” Adding injury to insult, the...
