Short Schrift

So you're surprised that I've returned to Short Schrift after a full month of silence. I'm surprised, too. And I bet we're b...

Tony Judt, whose output tends to be a little varied for my taste, has a new article in the New York Review of Books called "Europe vs....

Is it just me, or has NYTimes columnist David Brooks become completely retarded ? That is all.

We've all had them: moments of pure nerdly inspiration and expression. Without any assistance they stick to the walls of our memory thro...

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...