In Medias Res

I seem to have another theme developing here: music videos by British artists (last week's Chrissie Hynde is from Ohio, but The Pretende...

Because, I swear, I'd never really thought about it before. Man. You hear things, but somethings you need to see them before you can app...

In the comments to my post yesterday , a bit of an argument with an anonymous commenter emerged. My latest response was getting too long for...

It's been a while since I've posted--summertime laziness (soon to come to an end) and a workshop I taught last week got in the way. ...

Pulling out Sheena Easton's first big American hit makes me think about all those other artists who were right there on the edge of the ...

With all this talk about motorcycle repairmen , and the virtues of working with one's hands, virtues perhaps entirely out of the reach o...

If you were thinking last week , "Is that Sheena Easton strutting around with Prince?", you were right. Easton was one of numerous...

[Cross-posted at Front Porch Republic ] Let's pause a moment and be grateful that the job market for political theorists is so bad. Beca...

Yesterday, The New Republic featured both Marty Peretz and Damon Linker dumping on Jimmy Carter's nortorious "Crisis of Confiden...

I got some real satisfaction out of Michael Chabon's essay on "The Wilderness of Childhood" in the New York Review of Books. ...