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...

Low key day, low key links.

How Borges predicted Nate Silver; or, the connections between simulations and our perceptions of reality since World War Two.  

A fascinating, and bleak, diagnosis of...

Here's a review I did in The Hedgehog Review of a really thought-provoking (and good!) book by Phil Gorski.  I'm ok with how it ended up, but I'm so prolix that the patient editors had a hard time...

Sorry I've been out of touch (as if you cared).  We have had a busy time here in our Compound, with flooding and various other things.  I'm sure you'll wince when I tell you, I should be posting more...

I know you missed them.

This is interesting:

“By the 1920s most biologists, social scientists, and allied philosophers had concluded that the moral freedom of the individual figured centrally in...