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The End Is Nigh

Is it me, or is it a little ironic that World Emoji Day 2018 falls in the middle of Cannibal + more

Rise of the Machines

Tim Berners-Lee has regrets. From the very beginning, it turns out, the inventor of the World Wide Web “understood how + more

Weekend Recommendations

Thanks to a friend who lent me a copy, I’m finally reading Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in + more

Three for Thursday

Ethan Iverson interviews one of my favorite musicians; the New York Times features one of my favorite authors; the New Atlantis + more

Summer Reading

There was a time—not too long ago, in fact—when I thought that jazz was a dead art form. (I also + more

I’m Out

Your bloodcurdling, horrific, spine-tingling news of the day: “Spiders can physically detect electrostatic changes in their surroundings.” They “prepare for + more

USA! USA! USA!

Last year, the missus and I spent Independence Day with the good folks of Rachel, Nevada, at the Little A’Le’Inn. + more

Today in History

In the following dispatch to the New York Times, Samuel Wilkeson gives an account of the “Confederate bombardment” at Gettysburg, + more

Man, Oh Manischewitz

Over at the Hedgehog Review (NB: sadly, they don’t actually review hedgehogs), Steve Lagerfeld assesses the rise of the contrarian crowd—then + more

Seems About Right

Normally, I wouldn’t just throw a link up here on the blog without some sort of explanation or witty commentary. + more

Monday Miscellany

Donald Hall died over the weekend. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, start here. “Fashions have always come back around + more

Still a Tonic for Our Times

To anyone who knows her, it should come as no surprise that Courtney is responsible for sending me this link + more

Friday Afternoon Diversion

This, folks, is how you hook a reader: Start with Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, and a robot that loves you + more

Mishmash

Today on the blog, a Benedictine Beatnik and his concrete poetry, and a newly discovered 1963 recording of the John + more

War: What Is It Good For?

After the first two waves of Operation Steinbock, the Nazi’s final bomber offensive of WWII, “nearly 100 Londoners were wounded or + more

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