Something of a rant:

Where do "radical secularists" come from?  White conservative Christians seem quite worried about these people, and their persecuting ways.  It seems to be the case that in...

End of week links, for your Friday evening, because you really don't have anything else to do.  You're welcome!

This is one post in a series of interesting posts on Augustine’s “afterlife”...

Sir Walter Scott reviews Jane Austen’s Emma: 

[A] style of novel has arisen, within the last fifteen or twenty years, differing from the former in the points upon which the interest hinges...

Those of us who are academics, I suspect, got into this business because we loved what we were doing.  It was fascinating and gripping.  Sometimes it was painful and hard and difficult in many ways...

An interesting review of Piketty’s new book, fairly extensive and highlighting something I’ve noted too, the new opening, that Piketty (but not only Piketty) represents, of economics scholarship to...

Welcome to March, if "welcome" is the right word.

Some of this is platitudinous, and some of this is inane, but some of this was very useful, at least for me, both in introducing new ideas...

Happy March, everyone!  Well, as happy as March can ever get, anyway.

The Bernie surge--the Burge?--makes me think about a lot of things.  One of the things is the way that a lot of his...

Reading this piece and this piece in quick succession gave me a feeling of whiplash and one of deja vu.

For a long time, Democrats have been seen as a “godless” party.  This is...

Here's a fun piece by James Wood--excerpted from the Introduction to his new selected essays, Serious Noticing, on two different kinds of reading, exemplified by two different kinds of looking for...