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

medievalists in Kalamazoo

There they spend up to four days delivering or listening to some of the 1,500 scholarly papers...
May 31st
“The Creation is a perpetual Feast to the Mind of a good Man.”
— Joseph Addison (1712)
May 27th
Swiss man makes a successful jump using a parachite designed...
May 27th
[Indexed]
May 27th
“When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and...”
— Flannery O’Connor
May 26th
An image from the Phoenix Mars Lander (more here)
May 26th
the ‘light echo’ of an exploding star (via...
May 25th

washboarding

I was overjoyed that Congress refused to override President Bush’s veto of a bill outlawing the...
May 25th

an extinct world

When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in limbo between hot metal and cool word...
May 25th

Arendt and the problem of evil

In 1945, in one of her first essays following the end of the war in Europe, Hannah Arendt wrote that...
May 23rd

footprints and gardens

You begin to see that growing even a little of your own food is, as Wendell Berry pointed out 30...
May 23rd
May 22nd
at Lincoln Marsh this morning
May 22nd
Lynn Geesaman, Avery Island, Lousiana (2007)
May 21st

shaken, not stirred

Take the all-important issue of shaking rather than stirring the martini. In 1999, a group of...
May 21st
The Way to God
May 20th
Chess City, Kalmykia; via the weird Daniel Kalder
May 20th

the Diggers

In 1997, not long after I had first arrived in Moscow, my friend Sergei told me about the Diggers....
May 20th
A letter received last year at Fermilab; decoding under way
May 20th
“To the extent that the establishment depends on the...”
— J. Mitchell Morse (1972)
May 19th
Memo graphic design
May 19th
Hardman, On the City Walls, Chester (1955)
May 19th
E. Chambré Hardman, Birth of the Ark Royal (Liverpool, 1950)
May 19th

Chris Adrian's tatoo

Inside, a young man, grumpy but not at all rude, was waiting. He was round and hairy and,...
May 18th
[NYT]
May 17th
Orazio Fumagalli, Figure Fragment, 1995
May 16th

art that stank

Robert Rauschenberg, the man who once said he wanted to act in the gap between art and life, has...
May 15th
Alberto Manguel’s library
May 15th
Warch Watch
Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham (courtesy Dwight Garner)
May 15th

the apostate

As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is...
May 14th
May 14th
Homer and Mario untooned. Creepy.
May 14th

procrastination

Well, you’ve no doubt heard all manner of theories regarding the root cause of...
May 13th

Bach's notes

His music tends to work in all versions, I submit, because the notes-qua-notes are so good. Mozart,...
May 13th
“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of...”
— Leszek Kolakowski
May 12th
Kris Martin, Mandi VIII (2006); interesting commentary here
May 11th

the end of a lexicographical era

The future is here, and the immortal O.E.D., the one that lives in bound pages last published...
May 11th
Lake Marmo, Morton Arboretum
May 10th
bluebells in the Morton Arboretum
May 10th
May 10th
davidjphooker: May 9th:Speaking Without a Head ...
May 10th
May 9th
this morning at the Morton Arboretum (just cellphone...
May 9th
May 8th
May 8th
simultaneous electrical storm and volcanic eruption, in...
May 8th

do the math

Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee...
May 8th

why not to be a philosopher

In the late 1940s, as Richard Rorty was finishing his undergraduate studies and considering a future...
May 7th

on the sadness of higher education

The academic world I so loved revealed itself best in an undergraduate course I’d taken on the...
May 6th
Textism
May 4th

American in Paris

The biggest change is the ban on smoking in public places, announced by former Prime Minister...
May 4th
May 3rd
Vertical House, via BLDGBLOG
May 3rd
Endgame in Brooklyn, with John Turturro as Hamm (story here)
May 2nd

David Sedaris on smoking

When New York banned smoking in the workplace, I quit working. When it was banned in restaurants, I...
May 2nd
May 1st