2010-08-16     How Comp Lit is Different from Stamp Collecting
2010-08-15     The Hold the Mustard Fallacy
2010-08-02     The Eternal Plagiarism Dither
2010-07-27     Knock Knock
2010-07-18     There You Go Again, Cassandra
2010-06-17     Gather Round, Children, For Another Baudelaire Story
2010-06-16     $2 Per Person Per Year
2010-06-11     Have You Seen Me?
2010-06-06     Suspense
2010-06-01     Career Prospects Looking Dim? The Solution Here.
2010-05-23     Eating Words
2010-05-20     Short Autobiography
2010-05-18     Noam Chomsky Barred from Entering Israel
2010-05-10     Right Baby, Wrong Baby
2010-01-30     “Feeding Strays”
2010-01-28     Starting Out
2010-01-23     Selling Your Kid
2010-01-19     Bonsoir, Chérie, Courage
2010-01-18     Land
2010-01-17     In the Ruins

2010-09-06     Thoughts on Reading One Too Many Articles About the Tea Party
2010-09-03     Plumpy'nut(TM)
2010-08-30     They Call It Cost Control
2010-08-27     Say the Name
2010-08-23     Velcro Helicopters
2010-08-23     Nuh-no
2010-08-09     Death of Print, Cont.
2010-08-09     And He Thought the Tropes Were a People
2010-08-08     The Problem of the Problem
2010-07-29     Competition Where It Would Count
2010-07-18     My Bike, Your Baggage
2010-07-18     Why Literature?
2010-06-29     Trobriand Cricket!
2010-06-29     In the Family Tree
2010-06-22     Parnasse multiculturel
2010-06-18     Raising Haeckels
2010-06-18     Simultaneity
2010-06-18     The Examined Life, Cont.
2010-06-10     Do the Math
2010-05-13     The Immanuel Kant Bit Comes at the End

2006-11-07     specifically pacific
2006-11-07     Some relief, but give me more
2006-11-07     And Now From Command Central
2006-11-07     The Man in the Street Comes Out of the Rain

2010-09-04: The article should have said in relation to what $60/mo is considered “expensive.” In relation to somebody's procurement budget? In relation to the per-capita income in the country being served, which might well be under $1/day? Here, a...

2010-08-27: -- The consequence of a differential tax structure that rewards capital gains more richly (i.e., taxes them more lightly) than profits or salaries. If you're making more than 33K per annum, the capital-gains tax rate is a bonanza (actually people...

2010-08-19: I guess the Americans who resented Horace Engdahl's comments believe in the stamp-album model of world literature. There's a lot of it going around. The way to answer Horace is to say, “hey, have you read XXX yet,” not to start chanting...

2010-08-13: Sounds like time to reword the famous Nietzsche quotation, “Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger...

2010-08-05: For that, I charge a consulting fee and I make you pay for the whiteboard and the squeaky...

2010-06-16: Tricky thing is that healthcare, or life, is not a good like any other. You can reasonably ask people to accept a reduction in their sugar consumption (as the antislavery activists did in the 18th c.), you can demand a levy on incomes or put a tax on...

2010-06-14: Curious how fundamental empathy proves to be. Try, as an experiment, having sustained relationships with people on the autistic spectrum. It is deeply disorienting-- for the person who expects reciprocity and mutuality, that is. For the other,...

2010-06-10: Wang Hui's spiel bothered me, quite apart from the plagiarism controversy, for its call for “truthful voices” and “truthful people.” What's truthful, or not, is propositions, not people; let's pop a Popper, please, and be...

2010-06-03: In Nashville as I knew it, only the Country Music Hall of Fame is larger than life-- they must have added a wing for you, dear O. I wonder how small “life” is for some definitions of “larger than life...

2010-06-03: “becoming a parent is a lesson in empathy, both how much more empathetic you can become and how self-centered that empathy ultimately is” -- terribly sharp statement, S L Kim, and accurate: but my descant (la la la) would be that...