Short Schrift

Many people know that before I succumbed to the unremunerative way of all things literary, I was a young mathematician. I like to say that I...

Chris Anderson has an excerpt of his next book, titled "Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business" over at Wired. He begins by re...

I don't know whether anyone looked at my earlier spoiler, but yes -- The Wire's Omar Little, one of the most fascinating characters ...

Geraldine Ferraro gets silly in the New York Times : In the Democratic primary in South Carolina, tens of thousands of Republicans and indep...

Andrew Sullivan's recent vacation introduced me to the fistful of smart conservative bloggers (e.g. Reihan Salam ) who pitch-hit for him...

● Kottke, "Liveblogging the Oscars" : 10:00p: Just checked the movie times at the theater two blocks from my apartment. Juno at 1...

I've had three tabs open all week, intending to blog about each of them. Now it's Saturday, so it's time for rapid-fire. Charles...

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton prof, blogger, and writer for Slate, at BigThink . Stick around to the end, when she promotes the notion ...

Everyone seems to know the rules. God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and both loving and good. Yet evil or suffering exists. This appears to ...

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: Two researchers (a husband and wife) have crunched data to explain academics are so liberal and why conserv...