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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

Deep Breath, Everyone

On a day in which we mourn the passing of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain and learn that Washington Post columnist + more

Today on the Blog: Something for Everyone

We don’t normally do politics around here. But “The High Price of Stale Grievances” by Coleman Hughes is a serious, well-written + more

Hurts So Good

“When you drink good seltzer,” says Kenny Gomberg, third-generation owner of the last remaining seltzer factory in New York City, + more

You Don’t Say

So there’s this thing called the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes how people who don’t know much about a given topic + more

A Very Fine Artist

On a morning walk in the Queen Anne area of Seattle earlier this year, my wife Linda and our daughter + more

Post-Memorial Day Miscellany

The great Andrew Ferguson on today’s “futile and stupid gesture from Starbucks.” These days, efficiency is king. So what’s with + more

Apparently, Only Art Can Save Us Now

In the May 8 issue of The New York Times Magazine, Lauren Oyler asks an important question: What do we mean + more

Three Reasons to Eat Cake Today

Check this out: Richard Wagner and Arthur Conan Doyle share a birthday today, which, coincidentally, is the same day Sun Ra + more

Goodbye, Productivity

So. You’re an Egyptian Fatimid in the 11th Century and you need to get a load of spices, gold, slaves, + more

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