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
“Whoever murdered George Tiller has done a gravely wicked...”
— Robert George
Jun 1st
“Secularist leaders [in the Victorian era] were usually...”
— Tim Larsen
May 31st
May 31st
Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers | Video...
May 30th
Happiness is always a delusion
May 30th
Seamus Heaney on Robert Henryson
May 30th
Will Self on his growing affinity with the...
May 30th
1984: The masterpiece that killed George...
May 30th
“Vegetarianism is not easily dismissed either morally or...”
— Mary Eberstadt
May 29th
“For at least 10 or 15 years educators went gaga over ”the...”
— James Boyle
May 29th
Lessig on Helprin
May 29th
O'Reilly and the Wave
May 29th
“I have no esteem for belief in and of itself. I detest the...”
— Rémi Brague (via viz)
May 29th
“The Dose of it is about as much as may fill a common...”
— from a lecture given by...
May 29th
e-books in Africa
May 28th
Core77
May 28th
“EM Forster called it “poor chatty little...”
— the Guardian
May 28th
“You know them. I know them. And, increasingly, psychiatrists...”
— L. A. Times, via Slashdot....
May 28th
“Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is...”
— Mark Krikorian at the Corner....
May 28th
What are these people doing?
May 27th
the dangers of focus?
May 27th
Malcolm
May 27th
“Cooked food does many familiar things,” [Richard Wrangham]...”
— NYT
May 26th
“It is a time of many times: a time for dancing, even if to...”
— The last sentence of the last...
May 26th
“I was in one of those hotels where they give you The New...”
— I wish Steyn was doing more of...
May 26th
“Dissident conservatives have increasingly come to the...”
— Larison. I agree with this...
May 26th
quote of the day
May 26th
“I’m friends with a couple who take annual yachting vacations...”
— An essay by an introverted...
May 26th
Read all about it at BLDGBLOG
May 26th
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, by Richard Dadd,...
May 25th
“Whether Marxian or Millian, socialist or liberal, secular...”
— John Gray
May 25th
secrets of the museum
May 25th
“Professor William A. Read, a distinguished linguist, put it...”
— here
May 23rd
“I believe that the best way to restore the consistency and...”
— Gary Becker
May 23rd
via Kottke
May 22nd
“How was it that I, once a proudly self-employed electrician,...”
— Matt Crawford
May 22nd
The coolest thing ever.
May 22nd
the dyes from gas-tar
May 22nd
Dave Eggers will buck you up
May 22nd
“Everyone is stricken with doubt at times, but it has to be...”
— Larison. It should be noted,...
May 18th
Me: the President at Notre Dame
May 18th
dimensions
May 18th
Why we don't need to reinvent the book for...
May 17th
“My grandmother told me one morning that Hitler might be...”
— David Thomson
May 16th
Me: Time Passages
May 16th
May 15th
pulp covers
May 15th
Fabulous new covers for a series of science-fiction novels....
May 15th
more on book piracy
May 14th
the future of archives
May 14th
serendipity, alchemy, convenience
May 14th
“Unfortunately — and perhaps as an ‘irony of...”
— Patrick Deneen, responding to...
May 14th
In an extraordinary coup, the Kimbell Art Museum has...
May 14th
“My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it...”
— Richard Posner. I think this...
May 13th
Peake’s Lady Dedlock, from his illustrations of...
May 13th
a page from Mervyn Peake’s notebooks for Titus Groan
May 13th
the appeal of digital textbooks
May 12th
define "book"
May 12th
“At the time, psychologists assumed that children’s ability...”
— here
May 11th
handmade books
May 11th
“To all but a handful of his closest friends [Townes] Van...”
— NYT. If only Townes had lived...
May 10th
“Here [in Star Trek], in other words, is a long-range...”
— Anthony Lane (via viz)
May 10th
alas, poor Bodley
May 9th
The Great Pavement of Westminster Abbey
May 8th
“[Leon Despres] was a product of the University of Chicago,...”
— Leon Despres died yesterday at...
May 7th
Ink makes you free
May 7th
why the Big New Kindle is not likely to...
May 7th
NYT
May 7th
Maureen Mullarkey, Measure of Another Day, 2008, book cover...
May 7th
This calls for a caption contest.
May 7th
Penguin science fiction covers. Wow.
May 6th
“Had I been charged with hate speech 10 years ago, I could...”
— Ezra Levant
May 6th
the book-buyer's flowchart
May 6th
“If the New York Times shuts down, at least I won’t have to...”
— Spengler. LOL.
May 5th
email as marginal technology
May 5th
The full content of Michael Chabon’s website. I...
May 5th
The seven deadly sins, a nationwide map
May 5th
These are not Chinese characters. Explanation here.
May 5th
Tesla
May 5th
“Speculating about what his father, who died in 1973 aged 81,...”
— here
May 5th
“At the height of their popularity, the coffeehouses of...”
— Anne Applebaum
May 5th
“One way to test whether people live up to their virtuous...”
— NYT. You expect a guy who has...
May 5th
more on Google and books
May 4th
“The book starts out witty and then gets angrier and angrier....”
— Stanley Fish on Terry Eagleton...
May 4th
“David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is...”
— Gladwell
May 4th
more debates about Chinese orthography
May 4th
“The eighth-grade boy held out his wrists for teacher Carlos...”
— L. A. Times
May 4th
“I don’t see our history of mass education leading to careers...”
— Peter Wood. Ouch.
May 3rd
the World Digital Library
May 3rd
This one goes out to Jerry Coyne.
May 2nd
“The great and abandoned Manhattan underdome, photo by...
May 2nd