Short Schrift

Via Snarkmarket >: Joel Kotkin's article " Urban Legends ." Kotkin takes on Richard Florida and co. to debunk what he thin...

Oh, Philadelphia, I'm smitten by you. And the Northwest -- I love you most of all. Not least because of the Trolley Car Diner in Mount ...

I'm going back through some old posts, cleaning up the language and updating links and whatnot. First on the plate: my review of Andrew ...

Christopher Hitchens has been tickling me lately -- well, by way of his good prose, anyways. Two essays in particular -- "Trangressing ...

If you want to understand the genesis of this post, you should probably read "The Places I Have Come to Fear the Most," a post on...

Just so you don't think The Onion is all I read, I've also been working my way through my newly-arrived copies of Blink and Freakono...

It may be silly to link to an article from The Onion, but both "Scientology Losing Ground to New Fictionology" and "'Not...

Three remarkable articles appeared in the NYT in the past two days. They're worth triangulating. The first , by David Brooks, argues tha...

For each of the past five years, I've happened to have not one, but two favorite albums. Last year, Brian Wilson's Smile and The Ar...

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...