Blogroll

Weekend Edition: 11-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts (“We know that the very act of being poor guarantees that we will never not be poor.”)

The FBI files on being and nothingness (“Hoover needed to know if Existentialism and Absurdism were some kind of front for Communism.”)

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Weekend Edition: 11-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution (“You may have nothing in common with the Boston bombing suspect. But if the feds can bar him from communicating privately and effectively with his attorneys before he is even convicted they one day may be able to prevent you from doing so […]

Weekend Edition: 11-9

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Up in Arms (“There’s never been an America, but rather several Americas—each a distinct nation. There are eleven nations today.”)

Should Literature Be Useful? (“Fiction’s lack of practical usefulness is what gives it its special freedom.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

‘Bigfoot Hunt’ Goes Bad: 1 Man Shot, […]

Weekend Edition: 11-2

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Brown University’s Campus Liberals vs. Free Speech (“On the surface, campuses like Brown’s seem hegemonically liberal. But in my experience, that apparent consensus conceals a crucial gulf between students and faculty who hold left of center opinions but accept basic norms of fair play and students who consider freedom […]

Weekend Edition: 10-26

Judge Evidently Missed a Day at the National Judicial College

A Texas judge was forced to resign after texting instructions, such as what questions to ask, to a prosecutor in a trial in her court

Bookish Linkage

Seven bookish charities

Thirty-five titles have been selected for 2014 World Book Night USA have been announced […]