Short Schrift

For Andrew Sullivan, AIDS explains why 1990 was the year American attitudes towards gays changed: Remember: most of these deaths were o...

Chris Bray : In the first volume of his biography of Andrew Jackson, Robert Remini neatly captures the strangeness of state sovereignty. I...

Josh Marshall : I think it's because so much of Michael Jackson's life seemed like make believe. Sometimes farcical. But always like...

Andrea Walker, "Chicago, Where Fun Comes to Die" : The U. of C. is known for serious thinking combined with a sarcastic, self-depr...

Andrew O'Hehir interviews Grady Hendrix at the New York Asian Film Festival : "You have acquisitions people picking up movies that ...

The Importance of Order: German Researchers Tackle Untidy Desks, from Der Spiegel Online : It's the same problem everywhere: Overloaded ...

Tim O'Reilly gives an interview on the relevance of classical education to digital humanism : The unconscious often knows more than the ...

The Greeks and money by Richard Seaford in the TLS : This new and revolutionary phenomenon of money itself underpinned and stimulated two gr...

George Packer on why Iran's nascent revolution may be different from Burma's stillborn 2007 protests : For a few days, Burmese citiz...

Michel Foucault, " What Are The Iranians Dreaming Of? " The situation in Iran can be understood as a great joust under traditional...

Andrew Sullivan in 2007 : The longer this war goes on and the more we find out, the following scenario seems to me to be the best provisiona...

Historiscientific nerd alert: There's a hot new method of dating historical artifacts, specifically ceramic artifacts, based on their m...

I am a sucker for long histories, especially when they're summarized with simple schema. Phillip Greenspun wrote this for a talk on how ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates : The idea is that Latinos have a dual experience that whites don't have and that, all things being equal, they'll ...

Marvelous profile of Svetlana Gaier, translator of Dostoyevsky into German : Svetlana Ivanov was 18 years old when the Germans marched into ...

We loooove Kevin Kelly around here at Snarkmarket. Robin tipped me off to his stuff and he's since joined Atul Gawande, Roger Ebert, Vir...

If I ever meet Atul Gawande, I'm giving him a high-five, a hug, and then I'm going to try to talk to him for about fifteen minutes a...

Looking to the east for clues to the future (or the past) of the west isn't the least bit new, but these two recent takes (both in the N...

If only I had 6 million EUR lying around : Château de La Jarthe was once a refuge for the Order of the Knights Templar, the secretive Christ...

So there's this huge political money scandal in the UK. The Telegraph's Simon Heffer says, let's get Puritanical -- as in the r...