A busy day for me so here are some links to other pieces to keep you, you know, off the streets.

A piece explaining, a little bit (but more would probably stun me), how quantum computers work, what they are, and why they may be important.

This is an interesting article about political tumult between Oberlin (administrators and students) and their surrounding community.  It's behind a paywall right now, but hopefully that will change...

As everyone recognizes, the world as a whole is having a giant spasm of resentment, the likes of which we haven't seen since at least the 1930s, and maybe, at least in its global scope, never before...

Just came across this piece this morning, which is behind a paywall if you're not at a University that subscribes to the journal Renaissance Studies, but the gist of it is that "Erasmian humanism"...

This isn't Texas, and I've not been into high school football for thirty-some years.  

"Chateaubriand, like his contemporaries, may have imagined he was destined to be remembered for...

Here's a really interesting piece on how the elderly effectively blackmailed younger people to ensure their own care.

Found in the ruins of ancient Susa, dating from the first centuries of the...

Max Weber once called himself "religiously unmusical."  The extent to which this is true remains doubtful, but the phrase is a useful one to keep around.  Many people who write about religion have...

They flow in.  I gotta keep off-boarding them.

The Nobel prize in literature is just trolling us now.  Nice piece, with this interesting cultural observation:

The Nobel Prize...

One of my friends--Garnette Cadogan--has been communicating with me about the post about book reviews and reminded me of Daniel Mendelsohn.  (If you haven't read Cadogan yet, start with his terrific...

Here's a piece about scholarly book reviewing.  The author makes a number of good points about the importance of the practice, in defense of it against the many critics who suggest it's largely a...