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Like many innovations, Twitter is a good angle to use to talk about something that's been talked about a thousand times before. To keep ...

First, let me pay my debts. Adam directed me to the Economist article, and my descriptions of Husserl's categories come from James K. A...

The title of this post alludes to a book by Umberto Eco: Kant and the Platypus , which I picked up one day in the King's Cross bookstor...

"Before it's all over, everything you've done to other people gets done to you." Please respond in comments.

My dad asked me to explain the Apocrypha the other day, and I couldn't do it. I remembered some details: the Jews rejecting the books in...

Yesterday we bought A Fish Called Wanda on VHS for a quarter. We watched it today and promptly threw the cassette into the garbage so that ...

Happy belated birthday to Gilbert Keith . In his honor, I'll finally write this post I've been meaning to get to for months. It'...

Books & Culture is the best magazine I have ever read. It's published by Christianity Today International, which is headquartered a ...

In high school, I heard a translation of a sonnet attributed to Michelangelo. It was in a video about the Renaissance artists. I went up to ...

Lileks once wrote of attending a performance of the musical Annie: "That 'Hard-Knock Life' tune is very odd. (Wonder how many...

I've been whiling away many a free hour playing around with the guitar. I come home from work, do a few household chores, and play for a...

I thought the list below was about Star Trek when I first heard it. It comes from a recent episode of The Dollhouse. The scene begins with...

It was time to renew my driver's license. Luckily, I didn't have to retake the written test; just had to look into the black box and...