This piece in the Washington Monthly is a pretty insightful look at the short life of Culture11.
Ingrid Newkirk wants to shock us into awareness of animal suffering by demanding in her will that...
got paid for writing this.
UPDATE, 3/25: In response to some accurate criticism, I have pulled back some of the arguments made...
The discussion surrounding community, individualism, materialism, and the current economic and political crisis is anything but a...
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings...
UPDATE, 3/25: In response to some accurate criticism, I have pulled back some of the arguments made...
…medicine, or at least dentistry. I was in the dentist chair today and thinking to myself how...
…is weird. Expect good South park episodes to follow:
This is my third financial/economic/treasury round-up. I am not an expert in these matters so what I’ve...
Via Br. Dave, probably the best, simplest explanation of the credit crisis I’ve seen thus far. It...
The Portent by Herman Melville HANGING from the beam, Slowing swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow...
During his campaign, Barack Obama promised to talk with Iran – to open dialog with Tehran without...
Michael, would be to join that army that you are so desperate to send out to every...
I don’t know about anybody else, but this whole treasury/bailout/banking thing is just mind-numbing and overwhelming and...
….when you’ve got “Twit?“
Jacob Weisberg, I promise– I promise– 100 years from today, millions of paper-and-ink books will be being...
This whole Journolist fracas that has been kicking around lately has again dredged up some of my...
….are in order for Daniel Larison whose graduation was today. The Ph.D. is finally in the bag. ...
infandous: ““Unspeakable, not to be spoken of; nefarious,” (archaic). As in: “[MP George Galloway] is an “infandous...
