Good morning all!  I was thinking about what I share on this blog, and I realized I have confined myself mostly to texts or issues that were already on-line--in other words, articles I found online...

Reading the Sunday papers today, and amidst a drizzle of despair, two articles got my attention, both by women of color, both about how the turbulence we're experiencing is not simply a matter of...

So sorry I've been silent.  It's been crazy around here.  But I've been storing stuff up, even if I haven't been sharing it with you all.  Here's a small down payment.

Intriguing...

Dammit, finals!  You're killing me here.  Hopefully later this week I'll be back in the saddle.  Sorry.  

Exploring the archaeological history of Nabataea.  

Elisabeth Sifton...

Finals!  Every year I forget how crazy they are.  A lot of stuff all at once.  Anyway; if any of you out there have some free time, here are some thought-provoking things to read:

In...

Over the course of my career, I've increasingly noticed people caring about something called "impact factors" and "citation analytics."  This isn't so prevalent in my field, at least in part because...

Just a few.

A collection of snippets of early reviews of each of Marilynne Robinson's four novels--Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, and Lila.  Funny; I had never noticed that each of them is a single...

This is a nice piece on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (the TLL), which is aiming to be a truly comprehensive research project, mapping the semantics of the entire Latin language from its earliest...

Sorry for being out of touch.  End of teaching! Finals time! A bit crazy-making. If you're an academic, you know whereof I speak.

Are philosophical "intuitions" innate?  For the past...

If you braid them, they make a circle!  Maybe.  Metaphorically braid, and metaphorical circle. Whatever.

If you've never yet heard David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" commencement...