Again, nothing exciting, just some stuff I've read that seems interesting.

Jan-Werner Müller on Germany's predicament after Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  Good:

“This should be the hour of...

I'm back!  I've been on a twelve-day trip across two continents and three countries--the UK, Germany, and Texas.  Now I'm in Dallas-Fort Worth airport, waiting for a flight home.  It feels like the...

It's been a few days...classes finished, exams ahoy, and about to go on a big international trip (!!) for the first time since the pandemic began.  (Well, we came back home to the US during the...

Some perennial, some contemporary, all relevant.  It's just after the end of classes here, so we're still dealing with the craziness, but the possibility of summer beckons...

“80 Years Ago the...

More recent stuff, some of it.  All of it good though!  US FDA approved.

“It is ironic that books about innovation are so imitative. But that is how ideas become ideology.” Good review by my...

Hello all!  Hope all are well.  It's May first!  A new month!  A happy month!!  Classes end for us this coming week.  All are ready for the summer to begin, or at least the spring semester to end. ...

The thing about academic time is, it's lumpy.  Our calendars are clotted with various events and periods where life is crazy.  For me the craziest are the times from just before Thanksgiving until the...

This piece, B.D.McClay, is an interesting one about ambition.

Surely most people have ambition, yes?  But for what, I guess, is the question.  By “having ambition” here, I mean only that people do...

Sorry/not sorry for being away--I've been traveling to Do Scholarship and see friends (happily the two perfectly intersected) and so I've been distracted by things.  But don't worry the piles keep...

Link fever, link fever.  You don't have to show it.

I am not sure Douglas Coupland’s Generation X “is a literary classic,” but this piece helps unpack some of the surface dynamics of those of us...