Arts & Letters Daily (03 Nov 2010):
Willam Blake's "London," written two hundred years ago, rather grandly reveals us to ourselves. He might well have called it "America"... more
Mark Twain admitted to foibles: "I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for picturesqueness"... more ... more
Fukuyama, Huntington, Mearsheimer: three visions of the relation of the modern West to the rest. Three sets of ideas that connect, interlock, reflect, and short-circuit each other... more