Short Schrift

The Google Library Shockwave keeps rolling along. See my first "Technologies of Knowledge" post for my preliminary comments, but...

Recently, and after a long interval, I renewed my acquaintance with Friedrich Nietzsche. I was instantly reminded why he was my favorite phi...

Every so often in a blogger's life, the stars are aligned, and the idea you've been sitting on for a while anyway suddenly becomes n...

Leonard Ford just sent along a Times article ( "What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence" ) documenting the woeful state...

Tom Friedman's got an op-ed in today's Times exhorting President Bush to increase science funding. Why? Well, it's not just any...

Hmm -- should have gotten there before A&L Daily, but... Read Jonathan Franzen on Charles Schultz's Peanuts in last week's N...

(This post-election schrift just never came together, even after more than a two weeks' worth of work. It was originally dated November ...

For nearly all of November, I've been starting posts that I can't quite finish, whether due to time, space, or because I just don...

Morgan Quinto has released its list of the 25 most dangerous (and safest) American cities . Normally, I would be inclined to ask critical qu...

It's been more than two weeks since my last schrift, but it isn't like I haven't been busy -- I handed out candy to South Philly...