<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/09/12/against_types?mode=PF> i'd be interested in your responses to the above -- an article that talks...
here's an article about the phenomenon of lurid sadness in children's books. i've often joked with catherine about the "newbery death books," but she doesn't...
i was thinking about faith cary and hope middleton at our church -- all we need is a girl named charity, and you'd have it all. if you ever wondered where the...
i'm reading a fascinating book on the making of the king james bible. the author, adam nicolson, is one of those historians who has become so familiar with the...
sobering and excellent thoughts here from a thoughtful conservative ... we'd all like to say "that's not really us," but the facts always tell otherwise....
ever hear any of edvard grieg's piano renditions of norwegian folk tunes? here's a remarkable recording of them, with a traditional fiddler playing the...
richard florida is coming under attack for his theory of the "creative class," which i mentioned here a couple of years ago. read about the various points of...
by the way, has anyone seen mel gibson's 'passion?' i saw it on opening night, and came away with a number of expected and unexpected impressions. what are...
favorite quotes: jason y passes on this link -- i'd read it when it was published a few weeks ago. it's an article by alex ross, critic at large, talking about...
by the sometimes redoubtable george f will: can we make iraq democratic? <http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_can_we_make_iraq.html> i'd be interested in...
... to forgive some things. Therein lies one of the differences between relious groups, possibly. My belief is that we're told to forgive people, not things....
I think there is a difference in types of forgiveness, which muddies the discussion of religious perspectives on forgiveness. There is the type in which God...
a thought-provoking article on warriors and their sense of honor throughout history. <http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i28/28b00701.htm> sooooo, in your opinion,...
ever hear of the concept of the food desert? picture lawrence of arabia tromping through potato chips? well, the idea is that even in wealthy countries there...
what say ye to a game of sorts? let's have an info-race to see who can find out the most the first about the mystery ship the "high aim," found off the coast...
mike brannon sends me this article -- woww! i want that CD! ... Researchers translate DNA code into music Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Posted: 10:21 AM EST (1521...
this article got me thinking about that phrase, 'knowing something by heart.' that's more apt than we recognize, because, as she points out, having these...
in the sept 16th issue of the new yorker -- one year after the trade center attacks -- (and by the way the cover alone, once again, is worth the price of the...
here's an article by david brown, author of "bobos in paradise," about going back and forth from 'red' america to 'blue' america -- that is, conservative, ...
"As a philosopher, Socrates regards all opinion, no matter how conventional and confused, as potentially partial knowledge." That's Paul Cantor, author of...
here's an article in by ryan lizza that talks about the federal funds that florida is getting these days -- huge amounts of special deals and favors designed...
a friend just wrote, in the slack grammar that characterizes informal internet communication, "that is just apart of how i think." that got me to thinking: how...
a fascinating interview with an author who looks at the 'creative class' as an index of the energy of a city, and explains why austin took off and detroit...
Excellent article, Barry. Thanks for sending it. I have been aware of this debate for several years, at a very surface level. But this is the most in-depth and...
where would ordinary educated nonspecialists be without our twin towers of long-form journalism, the new yorker and the atlantic? here's an atlantic article...
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