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The part of the debate coverage that's driven me nuts is how everyone from The Daily Show to Chris Matthews to the McCain campaign has s...

Something else we can look forward to in a new Depression: amazing tap dancing!

I can't help but giggle when I read James Fallows's headline: "The Bush taint becoming the McCain taint?" Just imagini...

Jonathan Gottschall on Prehistory and Homer : Reconstructing a prehistoric world from literary sources is rife with complications. But ther...

Dan Piepenbring at if:book on Facebook's displacement of yearbooks, and what that tells us about the future of the book: Despite the p...

Paul Newman Dies At 83 .

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Charles Bernstein, " Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers ": Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massi...

I know I promised light blogging while I get myself all pretty for the job market, but this week it's actually about geography. I'm ...

Daniel Larison, " Delighting in Lamentations ": Even though I was not a Bush voter and voted for Buchanan, I have to admit that m...