This morning’s New York Times has an article about the WPA Federal Writers’ Project. It seems the Library of Congress is now presenting their collection of manuscripts from the Folklore Project. The article focuses on the American Guide series, where…
Your Humble Blogger is no Bright himself, but I do like the idea of Brights. I read an op-ed column by Daniel Dennett in this morning’s New York Times about The Brights, who are trying to get the use of…
William Julius Wilson writes in this morning Times about—you guessed it—poverty. It turns out that Our Only President has put forward policies that are—you guessed it again—bad for poor people. OK, this is not much of a surprise. On the…
Felicia R. Lee has an interesting article in this morning’s Times about the process of writing new constitutions for new nations (including new nations built on the ashes of old nations, such as South Africa, Eritrea, or Lithuania). It’s a…
Lately, Your Humble Blogger has been reading a few columns about the economy; here’s one from the Boston Globe, and Safire from this morning’s Times. They are pretty typical of the stuff I’ve been reading on either side, in that…
OK, so one of Your Humble Blogger’s pet peeves is the way low-probability high-profile events become, er, high-profile, despite neither being particularly interesting or particularly noteworthy. Howard Markel and Stephen Doyle got cranky, too, and put this piece in the…
The Supreme Court heard arguments the other day in Kasky v. Nike, a case about, among other things, free speech, lying, harm to others, corporate responsibility, fraud, and , of course, legal technicalities. As far as Your Humble Blogger understands…
A couple of interesting op-ed columns in this morning’s New York Times: Nicholas D. Kristof writes about whether the hawks or the doves were closer to right about Iraq. He quotes himself from a column last September as saying “If…
This morning’s New York Times had an article about She Stoops to Comedy, a new play by David Greenspan. The conceit, essentially, is that a lesbian couple is having difficulties, as Alexandra is terribly possessive; when her girlfriend gets cast…
This morning’s New York Times has an interesting article (regreq, as usual) about a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado in Japan. Evidently, it had never been performed in Japan by a Japanese cast for a Japanese audience, until a…