This piece is a bit glib, and a bit too free and easy, but it makes a useful point.  So consider this slight blog post a hat tip to the somewhat weak gesture it makes. That's why my thoughts here...

Still finding all these links in the attic.

We need to be utopian, and these scholars at Stanford are definitely that.  "Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th...

Sorry for my silence, I've been preoccupied. Next week I should be back with some original thoughts, but for now, here's some thoughts from other people, which let's admit, are probably better...

Surprise, surprise: four out of five dentists agree that the Citizens United decision has likely led to increased corruption in political spending and thus in American politics. (Just kidding about...

Just for your Tuesday:

Truly amazing changes and discoveries in archaeology over the past several decades. Not only in new fines being uncovered around the world, but a new technologies...

Following up on my rather depressing post of yesterday about the emotional temperature of politics, this morning I came across a nice piece by Nicholas Kristoff in the NYTimes that points me to a...

I was at a conference last week, and I attended a panel where one of the panelists--the always thought-provoking Liz Bruenig of the New York Times--said something that crystallized a lot of what I...

Just some stuff to consider today.  It's busy here--ch-ch-changes.  Good, but busy.

A nice collection of mementos for those of you who, like me, are from “Generation X”.

Robert...

As many people have noted, atheists get a bad rap in today's society.  People don't trust them.  In fact, even atheists mistrust atheists.  (This is kind of the opposite of Cary Grant's famous, if...

I believe in semicolons.  I believe in them in much the same way that I believe in the legitimacy of direct military intervention; in other words, I believe the use of such instruments must be possi...