Short Schrift

This schrift originated as a comment on LPS's "laurafedora" livejournal post on the recent Colorado decision overturning a d...

From City Journal , via Arts & Letters Daily : "Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power." The authors (Peter W. Huber and Mark ...

I pulled a few paragraphs from an AP article by Anne Gearan on Condoleeza Rice's trip to Seoul this morning. The first half of the arti...

I went up the Delaware to New Hope, PA this weekend with some friends I hadn't seen in a while, and managed re-make my acquaintance with...

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...