I'll start up again next week, I bet.  Merry Christmas!

Such a great piece by Jon Malesic, on the nature of discourse around “burnout” and what the phenomenon of burnout can tell us about how hard...

Good stuff below:

“In April 1864, as the Senate moved to approve the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd in Baltimore about this question of...

I'm finishing grading today, so naturally, I'm on this blog!  Avoidance is the key to productivity: one cannot outwit the superego, but one can occasionally head-fake it.

Russia’s memory of The...

I've been meaning to post this here for a bit, but I do have a piece out in The Hedgehog Review on Augustine, and especially the Augustine of the City of God, as a modern thinker.  It's pretty...

December 16!  Battle of the Bulge began 77 years ago today.  A gruesome, bloody mess.  Among other events.  That one sticks with my mind, as events of WWII occupied the mental space of my parents in a...

So David Chalmers, who’s always struck me as more clever than thoughtful, is about to come out with a new book arguing for the advantages of virtual reality.  There’s an interview with him that gets...

Sorry to have gone missing here.  I am getting distracted by other kinds of writing...one of which I'll post here tomorrow.  But for now, just a few links!

Interesting stuff from Pankaj Mishra her...