Short Schrift

Hey, kids. I never mean to neglect Short Schrift, but other things have a way of getting in the way. I do have an announcement, though, -- S...

Two articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education's "Careers" section recently caught my eye: the first, cleverly titled ...

Curse you, San Francisco : your wealthy citizens, your small total acreage, your tech-savvy public, your photogenic public servants, your re...

The Detroit connection originally caught my eye, but this Reuters article on the ownership swap of the Detroit News and Free Press is hilari...

The Guardian UK has a review of Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics sporting an excellent first paragraph: Very soon, there will be an Inst...

Today's NY Times has an article titled "The Green Machine That Could Be Detroit" -- half serious op-ed, half never-gonna-happe...

After I wrote my post on new music on the 13th, I decided to do a little more digging, to find out if there were some hot new albums I'...

I sometimes wish I wrote about music more in Short Schrift, but I'm always afraid that it'll degenerate into "Hey, I like this!...

This week's New Yorker has two very good pieces of art criticism. The first, and probably the more valuable, is Calvin Tomkins's wr...

On his Current blog, Robin Sloan notes the quality and quantity of citizen journalism generated around the London attacks: in particular, t...