more than 95 theses

2009

December 66
November 35
October 39
September 50
August 103
July 142
June 64
May 91
April 75
March 104
February 85
January 84

2008

December 90
November 64
October 32
September 52
August 79
July 38
June 53
May 56
April 74
March 58
February 83
January 63

2007

December 56
November 63
October 81
September 86
August 1
July 63
June 82
May 48
April 53
March 73
February
January
questioning cultural artifacts
Dec 31st
Warch Watch
the incomparable Stephen Bennett
Dec 31st
Frum and literature
Dec 31st
Is this the worst photograph ever made?
Dec 30th
the seminar on reading
Dec 30th
too much of a good thing?
Dec 30th
“In San Francisco, the city and county board of supervisors...”
— Father Richard John Neuhaus,...
Dec 29th
“The Rev. Chrispin Oneko, hanging up his vestments after...”
— NYT
Dec 29th
natural signs
Dec 29th
“Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the...”
— Matthew Parris in the Times of...
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
“The patch of ground in the imposing row of mountains is...”
— the Guardian
Dec 29th
book buying
Dec 29th
“We can show the hopelessness of single-issue causes and...”
— Wendell Berry, via Tim...
Dec 28th
“We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the...”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, quoted...
Dec 28th
my most memorable reading experiences of 2008
Dec 27th
“‘A liberal arts education is not a tool like a hoe...”
— Ginia Bellafante on Phyllis...
Dec 27th
The tree of life my soul hath seen, Laden with fruit and always green: The trees of nature...
Dec 26th
fast-twitch and slow-twitch
Dec 26th
Craigie Aitchison
Dec 24th
scrolls and codexes
Dec 24th
a Christmas Eve thought
Dec 24th
the age of reading
Dec 23rd
“I pray good beef and I pray good beer This holy night of...”
— Hilaire Belloc. Amen....
Dec 22nd
Andy Mangold’s redesigned Monopoly packaging. Wow. Via...
Dec 22nd
2008: the year the e-book caught on?
Dec 22nd
empty books
Dec 22nd
“Some geologists believe human impact on the planet is so...”
— the Technium
Dec 22nd
form and content
Dec 22nd
Cameron Moll, via Monoscope
Dec 22nd
revenue
Dec 21st
“Jesus, Jesus, rest your head. You has got a manger bed....”
Dec 21st
Warch Watch
Adam Rafferty again. This guy is amazing. He needs to be quieter while he’s playing, though....
Dec 21st
on typography
Dec 20th
dialogue redux
Dec 20th
religions and dialogue (by me)
Dec 20th
Warch Watch
Adam Rafferty plays Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”
Dec 19th
from the third and last day of The Big Picture’s Year...
Dec 19th
Tim O’Reilly loves Twitter
Dec 19th
a common thread
Dec 19th
from the 12th-century “Play of Daniel,” as...
Dec 19th
Order here! But I’m not sure it’ll arrive by...
Dec 19th
“‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is a terrifying,...”
— Wendell Jamieson in the NYT
Dec 19th
“Anita Silvey encountered a librarian just before the...”
— Here. The Newberys have become...
Dec 19th
end of an era
Dec 18th
three theses for disputation
Dec 18th
From one in a series of James Fallows posts about strange...
Dec 18th
what to write with
Dec 17th
“A recovery of Milton’s importance entails challenging...”
— Theo Hobson
Dec 17th
the pink dragon millipede; via Boing Boing
Dec 17th
the definitive word on the subject of the...
Dec 17th
“It’s not an asteroid we should be worrying about,...”
— Brian Appleyard
Dec 17th
“To see how much the ground has shifted in the past 20 years,...”
— Kenan Malik in Spiked
Dec 16th
“Human beings, left to themselves, have imagined God in all...”
— the Christmas message of Rowan...
Dec 16th
“Stuart Schwartz argues eloquently and convincingly in All...”
— my friend Carlos Eire in Books...
Dec 16th
screens and screens
Dec 16th
responding to responses
Dec 16th
“For the past few years, Jerry and Monique Sternin have been...”
— from the Year in Ideas...
Dec 14th
The Year in Ideas (fabulous stuff)
Dec 14th
more kindling
Dec 14th
Yesterday marked the end of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha,...
Dec 12th
typewriting
Dec 12th
me and my Kindle
Dec 11th
unncessary annoyances
Dec 10th
the short goodbye
Dec 9th
digital slime molds
Dec 9th
“[The University of Nebraska] had invited Bill Ayers, now a...”
— Anne Neal in TNR
Dec 9th
“We have a writing crisis on ours hands. Everybody in the...”
— n+1, cited here
Dec 9th
my new blog on technologies of reading,...
Dec 8th
A company called Constitution Arms claims that the FDA has...
Dec 8th
“Ayers may think that there’s still a debate about the...”
— hilzoy’s definitive...
Dec 7th
“In an age of hyperspecialization, profs and curators face...”
— Andrew Ferguson on the...
Dec 6th
“Yet amid all this there is a sense that we are losing...”
— A Guardian editorial. It is...
Dec 6th
Warch Watch
via If:book, where there is much more detail about Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings
Dec 5th
“When my mother arrived in England as a refugee from Nazi...”
— Theodore Dalrymple
Dec 4th
“But here’s the thing about buying a 3lb jar of Skippy...”
— Greg Allen, via Kottke
Dec 4th
“Recently, I bought a December 2008 Good Housekeeping from a...”
— Laura Vanderkam in Culture11
Dec 4th
The Reformation's "minimum kit" (by me)
Dec 3rd
"Reading, Writing, and Reformation" (by me)
Dec 3rd
Jonathan Hoefler writes that these are “some of the...
Dec 3rd
“Writing rejection letters is a delicate skill, one that must...”
— Jean Hannah Edelstein
Dec 3rd
Warch Watch
This could scarcely be more awesome: book2
Dec 1st
via Kottke, one of the best book covers of 2008
Dec 1st
“Will this book change anyone’s mind? In particular,...”
— Christian Smith back in 2006
Dec 1st
“But what about a site’s physical appearance? Does the...”
— Kottke
Dec 1st
ain't got time for that (by me)
Dec 1st
ain't got time for that, part II (by me)
Dec 1st
“There was a nasty moment, in the previous film, when Craig,...”
— Anthony Lane on the new Bond
Dec 1st
Dec 1st
“The organizers of an annual festival devoted to the 1939...”
— NYT
Dec 1st