Short Schrift

I haven't read or even bought Stephens Levitt and Dubner's new and much-lauded book Freakonomics, just as I haven't read or boug...

After closing in on thirty schriftless days, I have to preface whatever I'm going to write by first checking in, giving Short Schrift a ...

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...