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
"I will hate you till the day I die"
Jul 1st
and yet more hatred
Jul 1st
“Everybody seems to think that the Houses of Parliament are a...”
— Brian Appleyard. I could not...
Jun 23rd
a few links on my way out the door
Jun 22nd
“Oh, we all hated Holden [Caulfield] in my class. We just...”
— a 15-year-old Long Island...
Jun 22nd
Zito celebrates scoring the second goal for Brazil against...
Jun 21st
the joy of summer hoses
Jun 21st
“I hope I am not too old to take [flying] up seriously, nor...”
— Samuel Beckett, age 31, in a...
Jun 20th
“Definition of a park. It’s time to establish precisely...”
— William Boyd
Jun 20th
don't forget magazines
Jun 19th
“While the rest of us Americans scurry about with a...”
— Dan Baum
Jun 19th
get your paper here!
Jun 19th
I look into your reading future . . .
Jun 19th
embedded previews from Google Books
Jun 18th
Rest stops. I think I’ve visited them all.
Jun 18th
an interesting concept
Jun 18th
a brilliant new archive
Jun 18th
“No one tells you when you come to Washington that there are...”
— Kara Hopkins
Jun 17th
delivery vehicles
Jun 17th
cheaters!
Jun 16th
lost
Jun 15th
“…Until recent years, I read only ‘fundamental’ books, that...”
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer ...
Jun 14th
learning writing
Jun 12th
the religion of the book
Jun 12th
Etzioni on consumerism
Jun 11th
Joey deVilla, via Gruber. Couldn’t resist posting a...
Jun 11th
Warch Watch
Jun 11th
tales untold
Jun 10th
Twixtapositions
Jun 9th
Edu-babble is turning schoolchildren into...
Jun 9th
Ross Douthat - Not All Abortions Are Equal -...
Jun 9th
The American Spectator : Farewell to Judgment
Jun 9th
commonplace books
Jun 9th
When Campuses Became Dysfunctional...
Jun 9th
The Joy of Less - Pico Ayer
Jun 9th
Reprieve - Tim Kreider
Jun 9th
beautiful libraries
Jun 8th
tweeting for Godot
Jun 8th
What George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...
Jun 8th
Sam Tannenhaus, Conservatism Is Dead
Jun 7th
A Patron Saint of Teachers
Jun 7th
Only Words: on the new OED
Jun 7th

update

You’ll see that the feeds to this blog — from my Delicious account and from my Text Patterns...
Jun 7th
The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, HD and...
Jun 7th
Galileo Goes to Jail
Jun 7th

one of us has got to go

You may count me among the thousands who despise the Tumblarity “feature” that has...
Jun 5th
“Archie can’t make a permanent choice between Betty and...”
— Alyssa Rosenberg
Jun 4th
promise to buck up: kept
Jun 4th
Warch Watch
Bad Writing.
Jun 4th
comments
Jun 4th
creative writing
Jun 4th
thoughts from Finland on books and more
Jun 4th
me on Koko Taylor
Jun 4th
“Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that...”
— Louis Menand, speaking truth...
Jun 4th
“At some level, I venture to suggest, the experience of wine...”
— Roger Scruton, in a...
Jun 3rd
a lengthy post
Jun 3rd
“I’m the founder of a congregation in New York City called...”
— Here. You gotta love the...
Jun 2nd
“The assassination of Dr. George Tiller, long targeted by...”
— The Los Angeles Times, via...
Jun 2nd
“Do animal vandals feel any moral qualms? After seeing rugs,...”
— John Tierney
Jun 2nd
if you offer it. . .
Jun 2nd
“The people who kill abortion providers are the ones who...”
— William Saletan. A question...
Jun 2nd
“Most theological institutions I respect have stayed away...”
— Jason Byassee
Jun 2nd
Eternal vigilance (on Orwell)
Jun 1st
a bit o' linkage
Jun 1st
“Britain’s Supreme Court of Judicature has answered a...”
— NYT. I strongly disagree with...
Jun 1st
about that moose
Jun 1st