Dear English Rioter, I suppose it wasn't hard to learn how to fill light bulbs with ammonia (nasty stuff). But how did you bring yourself to throw that first one…
Most know what the structure of the March Madness basketball tournament looks like. I am not most; I had to look it up; what I don't know about college basketball…
In 1850 in the Netherlands nearly everybody was a Christian. A century later, three out of four said they still were. But if you believe mathematicians Daniel Abrams and Haley…
What I am about to show you was bound to happen. Inna Semetsky has reviewed Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn's new book, Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for…
First Things' Joe Carter is running an amusing contest pitting great (and not so great) novels against one another, knock-out tournament style. As of this writing, he's up to Round…
The Lady Tasting Tea will continue Sunday; posting anything meaty on the weekend produces low readership. Libraries According to Julie Bosman, many publishers are now only renting ebooks to libraries.…
No, not the reactors, the press. Ghouls, most of them. They always wish for the worst. The only class of people (besides Communists and morticians) for whom death not only…
The Lady Tasting Tea continues tomorrow. Freeman Dyson Speaks From our man-on-the-spot WS comes this link to an interview with Freeman Dyson regarding his work "In Praise of Heretics." That…