Hello.  A slow week?  Of sorts.  A lot got done, just not much output.  Is that so wrong?

I am re-reading Hannah Arendt’s essay on Bertolt Brecht in Men in Dark Times, and it seems especially...

Sorry I've been silent here!  I was at a conference in Texas this past weekend (what is it with me and Texas? I don't know, but I do love some of the people there).  Heading into a quiet time with...

Just a few.

I had missed this when it came out, but new technologies are letting us identify some of the carbonized papyri in the “Villa of the Papyri” at Herculaneum.  This is effectively a rich man...

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A viable account of two plausible hypotheses regarding the polling errors in the 2020 poll.  The degree to which Republican support of institutions has dropped in the last 40 years is...

Just some links, as ever.  Things are busy these days!

Good review of McGurl’s new book:

“While McGurl’s perspective is presumptively anti-capitalist, he asks us to stand in awe—as if before a...

I had a pretty busy "outdoors" day yesterday--by which I mean out of my house--and so I'm staying close to home today.  I will miss church, which I returned to for the first time last week, but I...

Just a few today. 

Amazing recontextualization of American plantations, where many were enslaved, by making the descendants of the enslaved part of the story.

A good early piece on whether and...

I went back to my church this AM for the first time since January 2020.  (We spent the next six months in the UK, and by the time we came back, all had been shut for the time being.)  It was great....

I've had a busy couple of weeks.  I'll post some of the things here on coming days, but basically I've given four public presentations and produced several large reports.  I'm pooped.

For now...

Sorry I've been busy--teaching, writing, talking.  The talking at least ends tomorrow.

Really good interview with my friend and colleague Sonam Kachru about his new book Other Lives: Mind and...