more than 95 theses

me on Anthony Lane, violence, and suffering

Mar 4th

Eric Hobsbawm: Era of Wonders

Mar 4th

Birkerts and the Kindle

Mar 3rd

Watch

Thanks, Reihan.

Mar 3rd

Text Patterns: what to save, continued

Mar 3rd

Richard Lewontin: Billions and Billions of...

Mar 2nd

Text Patterns: what to save and how to save...

Mar 2nd

The Unfinished: on David Foster Wallace

Mar 2nd

The Background Hum: on Ian McEwan

Mar 2nd

“Bliss — a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of...”
— David Foster Wallace, a note...

Mar 2nd

“The dogma of American superiority makes many of its citizens...”
— Stefan McDaniel, a native of...

Mar 2nd

“Pearce is, I imagine, something of a curiosity to the...”
— David Pearce is an English...

Mar 2nd

the Atlas powered exoskeleton, described here

Mar 1st

more counting

Mar 1st

Some employees of Lego get these instead of business cards....

Mar 1st

here, via Monoscope

Mar 1st

“There are certain types of sites for which comments work...”
— Alex Payne

Feb 28th

Science and the Theft of the Humanities >>...

Feb 28th

The Punic Wars in online comic form. Now that’s what...

Feb 28th

“The entity we call Amazon has become a finely-honed machine...”
— Steven Frank

Feb 28th

I'm counting you out

Feb 28th

the return of the repressed

Feb 27th

Wystan Hugh Auden, c. 1955, Watercolor on paper by Richard...

Feb 27th

Simon Armitage, "The Shout"

We went out into the school yard together, me and the boy whose name and face I don’t...

Feb 26th

RT 20 tischsuper radio, 1961, by Dieter Rams for Braun. As...

Feb 26th

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I am SO using this in my classes.

Feb 26th

Media-Morphosis: How the Internet Will...

Feb 26th

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired...

Feb 26th

Higher education needs a national computing...

Feb 26th

In Defense of Readers

Feb 26th

thedigitalist.net » my tee oh see

Feb 26th

From a Witold Rybczynski slideshow on Slate about Louis Kahn...

Feb 25th

“But if the patrons were not in themselves ridiculous, one...”
— Rameau’s Nephew...

Feb 25th

“In the past few months, we’ve been riveted and...”
— Daniel Gross

Feb 25th

“There are times in the quarter of a century since I arrived...”
— Andrew Sullivan

Feb 25th

“The philosophical problem of religious advocacy in a...”
— David Novak

Feb 24th

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Louis C. K. on Conan O’Brien (via the Technium)

Feb 24th

“Socialismo o Muerte. Socialism or Death. In that slogan...”
— Lygia Navarro in the VQR

Feb 23rd

me on Do-It-Yourself Tradition

Feb 23rd

“The import and adaptation of American-style liberal arts...”
— here

Feb 23rd

“‘In postwar Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great,...”
— NYT

Feb 22nd

here, via Monoscope

Feb 22nd

“If we can create new molecules which can behave in life-like...”
— Here. At last, we know why God...

Feb 21st

me on Fish and Millman

Feb 21st

this week’s Big Picture

Feb 20th

A New Day for Intellectuals :: Andrew...

Feb 20th

portraitoftheartistasayoungman: Harry Potter Redesigns by...

Feb 20th

“There is much current neuroscientific excitement about the...”
— Steven Rose, here

Feb 20th

“When you have just been told that the girl you love is...”
— P. G. Wodehouse, Summer...

Feb 19th

“We need to think here broadly about the necessity of growth...”
— Patrick Deneen

Feb 19th

Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know...

Feb 19th

“I think putting in a lot of effort should merit a high...”
— Jason Greenwood, a senior...

Feb 18th

Michael Bérubé :: Diversity and dangerality

Feb 17th

“We’ve all heard the argument repeated by pundits and...”
— here

Feb 17th

“One may be tired of the world — tired of the prayer-makers,...”
— Harold Brodkey, just before...

Feb 17th

The Spiritual In Art :: Jed Perl

Feb 17th

“What is most intriguing - and, to their detractors,...”
— Sean O’Hagan, in a long...

Feb 16th

“On behalf of black people across this nation, I would like...”
— yeah

Feb 16th

“So I’ll just ask, yet again, how a league that claims...”
— Brian Phillips on the...

Feb 16th

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I lack the internal resources to confront this. I’d rather be Rickrolled. Courtesy Textism.

Feb 16th

“In one sense the efficacy of poetry is nil — no lyric ever...”
— Seamus Heaney

Feb 15th

“In Wells Cathedral there’s this ancient clock, three...”
— Simon Armitage, from...

Feb 15th

first drafts of the parables of Jesus

Jesus said, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is...

Feb 15th

“But then came Copernicus and the scientific world view, and...”
— Jerry Fodor

Feb 14th

“In the early Middle Ages, the great Burgundian monastery of...”
— Rowan Williams, The Truce of...

Feb 14th

Feb 13th

The Big Picture in Tibet, at the Great Prayer Festival....

Feb 13th

“Go online and you can find just about any music or talk show...”
— Farhad Manjoo

Feb 13th

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Fleet Foxes, “Mykonos”

Feb 12th

“Certainly I have met with little of the fabled odium...”
— C. S. Lewis

Feb 12th

Modern “3D Lichtenberg Figures” or...

Feb 12th

“Kamal Meattle reported the results of his efforts to fill an...”
— Pogue’s report from TED

Feb 12th

“If humans took their cues from ants, they might spend less...”
— Wired

Feb 11th

“I have no genius to disputes in religion: and have often...”
— Sir Thomas Browne, Religio...

Feb 9th

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via The Run of Play

Feb 9th

“Indeed, so much is made of the deep, deep exculpatory shame...”
— Ron Rosenbaum, speaking truth...

Feb 9th

Feb 9th

A 1966 ad for Helvetica; here, via Monoscope.

Feb 9th

Collegiate Sex-Ed, by Ryan T. Anderson

Feb 8th

The Future of Academic Journals

Feb 8th

“[W. H.] Auden was delighted to read [Joseph] Campbell on the...”
— Edward Mendelson (via viz)

Feb 8th

Ideal House, Great Marlborough Street, London

Feb 7th

Christ Church, Spitalfields, London

Feb 7th

architectural paintings by Peter Luty; here, All...

Feb 7th

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Solomon Burke and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Thanks to Radley Balko.

Feb 6th

“I don’t want to minimize the anguish recent events...”
— a commenter on Rod...

Feb 5th

Born believers: How your brain creates God -...

Feb 5th

Kanye West and his entourage, via Kottke. But which one is...

Feb 4th

15 Ubiquity Commands to Enhance Your Web...

Feb 4th

the Great Cham of Literature and Mr. Larison

Feb 4th

a science and religion post

Feb 4th

Stephen Fry and the other people stuck on an elevator with...

Feb 4th

“The British tabloid News of the World published a photo...”
— Slate.com’s Explainer

Feb 4th

“The tale is told of how Erasmus, walking home on a foul...”
— George Steiner

Feb 3rd

“Auden was decades ahead of most other Christian...”
— Me, here

Feb 3rd

“When I see Delong more or less indiscriminately trashing...”
— Will Wilkinson

Feb 3rd

“The Christian novelist is like a man who finds a treasure...”
— Walker Percy

Feb 2nd

“The novelist is less like a prophet than he is like the...”
— Walker Percy

Feb 2nd

“Staying recently in a South Yorkshire town called...”
— Theodore Dalrymple is always...

Feb 2nd