My apologies for dropping out of this discussion here - it deserved more time than I could give it 'til now, and Grim gave me a not-at-...

A biologist writes about culture in terms that will seem quite familiar : RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, ea...

Well, then-aspiring-author Obama, rather.  Dr. Althouse is reading more around the dog-eating tract that has gotten so much attention. ...

If some science fiction writer doesn't pick up on this idea for a story about really alien forms of life, he's missing a good bet. ...

Bookworm has a post up about bullying.  I found myself trying to recall how it was handled when I was a kid, but honestly I can't remem...

In the first part, we discussed a problem about how we could know the world , which is related to another problem about how we can share kno...

This time they actually let someone get hurt. Investigations are underway to determine whether alcohol and underage hookers were involved....

Not a well known name these days, but a man with a strong voice. The Kingston Trio did some of his pieces .

Waylon Jennings has a famous song about a good-hearted woman , who loves a man who may not be good enough for her.  What isn't as well k...

It is very rare that a man should be at once under consideration for both the Medal of Honor, and sainthood . There seems to be only one o...

We didn't say anything here about the infamous controversy of Ms. Samantha Brick, which probably most of you noticed a few weeks ago (I ...

I don't think we've mentioned Atrios here for most of the decade he's been blogging -- looks like once in 2003 and once in 2005 ...

You know how it is. You just want to publish a newspaper to a few like-minded citizens, without all the fuss that comes from robust circula...

Not that kind, the PR variety .

Joseph W. asked for a separate and new thread to discuss this subject, which arose in our discussion of problems of creation . Even a summ...

Studies of medieval coins in Norway suggest a more complex economy than is commonly pictured: The trick is in the coins’ metallic body – ...

The Guardian describes Dr. Terry Eagleton's new position on literary theory .  His old position was to declare that there was no qualit...

Here's something I like to see: states trying something new with the public schools on a large enough scale that we might be able to dr...

Don't miss this XKCD graphic about ocean depths.

From a not particularly snide N.Y. Times story about the famously combative Andrew Breitbart, an anecdote from his wife at his funeral: “I...