After 6,205 days on the job, I’m hanging up my spurs. Which means this blog post (number 1,627, for those + more
On a flight home from grading hundreds of the 280,000 five-paragraph essays submitted for the Advanced Placement Test in English + more
The most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary—the 600,000-word “Victorian phenomenon” that is, in fact, my favorite lexical record—was + more
Elizabeth Corey praises the slow, humble work required of true scholarship: “Though it can be fun to act as an + more
I’m no Art Garfunkel, but I have been keeping track of my reading over the last couple of years. Just + more
From the eminently quotable Cornel West, on the subject of American pragmatism: We can go all the way back to + more
Had a picnic lunch with the missus last Monday in Lonerock, Oregon. We were on our way home from Redmond, + more
Leo Nocentelli turns 76 today. The lead guitarist and co-founder of The Meters was born in New Orleans in 1946. + more
Six years ago, when we first brought to your attention the emergence of curate as a synonym for select, I + more
If hell exists—and I’m inclined to believe it must, otherwise the Kardashians would have no place to go when they + more
Over at Hazlitt, Matthew Bremner writes beautifully about Justo Gallego Martínez and the cathedral he worked on—largely by himself—for 60 + more
I was reading a this story about MSG when I came across the following: Despite MSG’s image makeover, I’ve found + more
Researchers estimate that 90 percent of medieval manuscripts have been lost completely. Florence Hazrat asks the important questions: Are prescribed + more
This xkcd comic—from 2010, mind you—remains true today: I mean, see for yourself: exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C, exhibit + more