November 2008
“I’ve often thought about myself as a character in the Sims, being...”
– Monadology
“When it comes to the heart of the matter, what Zizek wants is not dialectic, but...”
– Adam Kirsch, in TNR (link will eventually fail, if it hasn’t already)
“Just last winter, gas at $4 a gallon was said to represent a super-ultra...”
– Gregg Easterbrook
“Some months before the election, I received a request from a young man I...”
– Tunku Varadarajan in Forbes
When Barry Met Sally →
“The Black Death of 1348 was only the most notorious epidemic of bubonic or...”
– Peter Ackroyd
“But how do those who are ready to live in this modern world coexist with those...”
– Andrew Sullivan
“The more Bertoni improved upon Netflix, the harder it became to move his number...”
– NYT
“PHILADELPHIA — Wyeth Pharmaceuticals unveiled a new pain-causing line of Advil...”
– AFNS
“Cheating at video games was a hobby [for Virgil Griffith] early on. ‘I...”
– NYT
“There is nothing inherently unethical or immoral about a needlessly effusive...”
– Joe Queenan
“We may divide religions, as we do soups, into ‘thick’ and ‘clear’. By Thick I...”
– C. S. Lewis, “Christian Apologetics,” in God in the Dock
“Critical thinking” is a form of intentional deracination and displacement. Its...”
– Patrick Deneen
“Earlier this year, I published an article in City Journal called “Child-Man in...”
– Kay S. Hymowitz
“In her fascinating book about memory loss and the efforts of scientists to...”
– NYRB
“It is understandable that citizens who are religious—which for public purposes...”
– Father Neuhaus
“When the student goes off to college, overparenting need not stop. Many mothers...”
– Joan Acocella
“Les Murray, “The Say-But-the-Word Centurion Attempts a Summary”
...”
“There was a man of double deed,
Who sowed his garden full of seed;
When the...”
– see Robert Pinsky’s comments on this anonymous poem here
“There is an element of the “wannabe” about all this—something that...”
– Hitchens
“The Rt Hon Lord Igor Judge of Draycote oversees the English and Welsh judiciary...”
– via Ars Technica, and yes, he is a judge named Judge. Igor Judge. Seriously.
“Many of us black professionals, members of the black elite, keep the embers of...”
– Gerald Early
“The assertion and expansion of presidential power is arguably the defining...”
– Jonathan Mahler in the NYT. This is what I’ve been saying for the last six years or so to my conservative friends: you can support this unprecedented expansion of executive power now, but then you’ll be stuck with it the next time a Democrat is in the White House — and that Democrat may...
“Of course, it is true that white America has made great progress in curbing...”
– Shelby Steele
“The writer cannot afford to question his own essential nature; must have, as...”
– Randall Jarrell
In the Garden →
“BLACK MAN GIVEN NATION’S WORST JOB
WASHINGTON—African-American man...”
– oh, like you don’t know
