Short Schrift

Chava Willig Levy, The Kindle and the Jewish Question : Like my father and the Jewish doctoral student, a Chasidic master living at the turn...

The Importance of Order: German Researchers Tackle Untidy Desks, from Der Spiegel Online : It's the same problem everywhere: Overloaded ...

[I especially like the shout-out to linotype.] June 23, 1868: Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap … Ding! | This Day In Tech | Wired.com : Christopher L...

Henry Jenkins interviews Mary Borsellino about Project Girl Wonder and her book Girl and Boy Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context : The idea o...

Tim O'Reilly gives an interview on the relevance of classical education to digital humanism : The unconscious often knows more than the ...

The Greeks and money by Richard Seaford in the TLS : This new and revolutionary phenomenon of money itself underpinned and stimulated two gr...

I really like her acoustic take on "The Strangers". :

Claire Harman in the TLS : It is a surprise to discover, from Stuart Clarke’s excellent notes, how hard Woolf worked on these seemingly effo...

George Packer on why Iran's nascent revolution may be different from Burma's stillborn 2007 protests : For a few days, Burmese citiz...

Michel Foucault, " What Are The Iranians Dreaming Of? " The situation in Iran can be understood as a great joust under traditional...