Stay busy, and keep your eyes on the ...
As a science geek from way back"Andrade and Huxley were favorite childhood companions"I try to keep tabs on that side of things. This can be disheartening. To quote from that intergalactic bestseller We Are Doomed: Scientific objectivity is a freakish, unnatural, and unpopular mode of ...
Britain's finished. Stick a fork in ...
Probably it's just my simpleminded arithmomania, but years ending in the numeral three seem to be more memorable than average, both publicly and personally, for reasons high or low. In 1953 the public became the personal. This was the year of the Coronation, the first public event to impinge on my ...
Perhaps one shouldn't try to distinguish between degrees of horror, but what seems to me to have been the worst ...
It has been nearly a hundred years since Sir James Frazer completed his tremendous work of anthropology The Golden Bough. The book scandalized many Christians, suggesting as it did that the theme of a divine person sacrificed and then reborn has been common since deep antiquity and across all ...
Do we deduce, then, that President Obama has been chuckling over copies of his enemies' tax ...
People who live among words, books, and ideas, and who are scholars, or hobnob with scholars, or dream of being scholars, occasionally need reminding of the social world's true contours. Human society is just a magnification, a multiplication, of individual human nature, concerning which I laid ...
If you want honest talk about race, an articulate working-class black person like Chuck Ramsey is your best ...
I keep getting surprised by my own naïveté. The case here is that of Anthony D. Weiner, who until two years ago was the US Representative from a Jewish/white-ethnic/black district of Brooklyn. Rep. Weiner became ex-Rep. Weiner after Tweeting suggestive pictures of himself to female ...
