Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
June 7, 2026Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were...
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
June 7, 2026I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
June 6, 2026Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and...
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
June 6, 2026The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
June 5, 2026One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
June 5, 2026"The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by...
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
June 5, 2026I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
June 5, 2026The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...




