Here’s BlaiseP in a post-worthy comment: Traditions aren’t dying out… says the man who just bought a new Online calligraphy pen. Harking back to Sam Smith’s ur-screed, bemoaning the Liberal instinct to concentrate and...
Over at Inside Higher Ed, Stephen Brockmann apologizes for the culture war having politicized the humanities in the 80s: “What on earth were we thinking? Exactly why was it considered progressive in the 1980s to get...
After the jump, an oil painting by Toronto artist Ryan Dineen, from a series opening today at the Show and Tell Gallery in Toronto.
That’s the title of The New York Times’ series on The Civil War, which is highly recommended. Here’s a great entry on Virginia, the (relatively) urbanized and cosmopolitan “North of the South” during the...
You can hold the screenwriter of The Fighter responsible for the Air Bud franchise.
I was struck by this line in E.D.’s fine recent post on centralization: I think there is profound tragedy in the loss of tradition, of folkways and local practices. I suppose I do too. However,...
Probably nothing. Until it looked like Egypt, at which point it could be too late: For those trying to follow events in Egypt, Wednesday was a chaotic experience. Unlike the close of Tuesday, when...
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on Saturday Morning Gaming: MetroidvaniasThe "Can a MV be 3D?" debate has resulted in many broken hearts and broken bones, but I think that i…
on Saturday Morning Gaming: MetroidvaniasHollow Knight is great. It was one of the first non-console games I had played in a long time and on… on Saturday Morning Gaming: MetroidvaniasHollow Knight does not hold your hand. I'm not calling it a "soulslike" or anything like that becaus…
on Saturday Morning Gaming: MetroidvaniasI was a massive fan of Castlevania while the vast majority of my friends were into Metroid and Rygar… on Tariffs Making China Great AgainI wonder if the market is pricing in the probability of a suit like this eventually succeeding (and…
on Tariffs Making China Great AgainI believe that you can have standing recognized on the basis of imminent harm. Though even then, I d…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/417e58aa2d61f2e01a40847ad106f08f4d61361cf51ae8658e6ca910ea1dcbb… on Tariffs Making China Great AgainOh wait, that's for the February tariffs -- probably too early for the most recent ones, right? Stan…
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