Short Schrift

Daniel Larison : Despite his fairly humble origins, Obama speaks the language of the elite and the highly educated (or at least the thorough...

Der Spiegel reports on an exhibition of photographs of Vichy-era Paris that have caused an uproar. The 270 full-color photographs were take...

Clay Shirky : I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she asked me, "What are you seein...

The most emailed story at the New York Times is about researchers at Ohio State who claim that learning to manipulate abstract mathematical...

Hey! It's Saturday, so here are some poetry links. Ron Silliman on poetry contests : Consider the best known of these awards, the Yale Y...

Environmental Graffiti lists five American cities that may become "lost cities" in the indeterminate-but-not-too-distant future. ...

Timothy Burke at Cliopatria has sketched a near-comprehensive list of modes of historical explanation -- or as he calls it, different ways ...

Ken Silverstein's "The Revolution Will Not Be Pasteurized" is a long, readable, and balanced story about raw milk. It also in...

Natalie Zemon Davis's review-essay on Michel de Certeau is unsurprisingly peripatetic, given de Certeau's interest in "extrava...

There are times when I would rather wrestle a rabid alligator to the ground than get my seven-month old son to sleep. Yet the first, I do on...