Electronic Beowulf? For reals??? Guess my weekend’s settled, then. In the meantime, I’ll be re-reading Maryann Corbett’s masterful take on + more
Electronic Beowulf? For reals??? Guess my weekend’s settled, then. In the meantime, I’ll be re-reading Maryann Corbett’s masterful take on + more
“Younger women have closed the pay gap or are outpacing their male counterparts [emphasis mine] in nearly two dozen U.S. + more
“When we inadvertently open a door and see someone pooping,” writes Adam Mastroianni, “we could curse ourselves, the someone, the + more
I suppose it’s cheating, but I always skip ahead on stuff like this—because the number-one pick will tell me how + more
This is like that Seinfeld episode where Elaine’s coworker mistakenly refers to her as “Susie,” and Elaine decides it’s easier + more
In addition to self-reflection, common decency, and basic infrastructure maintenance, we Americans are apparently really bad at demographic math. “When + more
Karl Ove Knausgaard: “The expectation of an answer runs so deep that it is presumably fundamentally human, the most characteristic + more
I’ve been banging this drum for some time now—and it appears that the eggheads are finally on my side. From + more
Kind of cool that Archduke Eduard of Austria—Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta—took to + more
I felt pretty good about the state of the world after reading this piece over at Axios this morning. No, + more
Today is the 35th anniversary of the release of U2’s The Joshua Tree. I was in college studying music at + more
cupidity (noun) Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice. [Middle English cupidite, from Old French, from Latin cupiditas, from cupidus, + more
With apologies to the missus, who professed to be “oogling” something this morning,* the correct word is ogle, pronounced oh-guhl. + more