Apologies for being so off-line of late. I've not been off-line in general, but I have been growing a little bit more disaffected with the entire inter-webs phenomenon. That may change things for me...

Super-quick piece today:

This piece, from February, is good on how to think about how we encounter information on-line, and what sort of engagement is best undertaken on-line. 

It recommends a...

Sorry for my silence; it's been busy.  But the links keep piling up!

A surprising fracas in a think tank led Dan Drezner to pen this nice piece that offers an interpretation of this event, as well as...

This piece, on the weird alliance (stretching back decades, now) between neoliberal technocrat law prof Cass Sunstein and (always technocrat, recently Roman Catholic integralist) law prof Adrian...

Nothing too exciting.

This is quite good.  “It’s time for faculty and administrators to be blunt: postgraduation success, more than ever, requires a demanding curriculum that includes extensive...

I get a thing called the “Scout Report,” about cool things that are kind of academic-y on the web, and this week they had this really cool tour of John Ashbery’s house!  Here’s what they say about it...

Seriously, if you've never read Harry Frankfurt's little book On Bullshit you owe it to yourself to read it.  It's, umm, increasingly necessary in our world.  And I don't care what year you are living...

I've been thinking about this story, from the New York Times in January, since I read it when it was published.

This is the lawyer in the justice department who seems to have wanted to go along with...

Nothing special.  A pretty day here--hopefully where you are too.

This is terrific: a conversation with one of the first people to worry about the attention economy:

“Attention is a bit like the...

I'm reading a lovely scholarly edition of a book entitled Terrae Filius, or, the secret history of the University of Oxford, from the 1720s.  (Don't worry, this edition came out in 2004.)  There’s a...