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The Atlantic Monthly, June 2008
A lively, pleasant read this month. Some articles about Barack Obama. Joshua Green’s “The Amazing Money Machine” leads to the idea that no two successful presidential candidates use the same...
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The Atlantic Monthly, July/ August 2008
The cover story of this issue asks “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” If that article had run in The New Yorker, it would have begun with the sentence that in fact opens its 11th paragraph: “Sometime in...
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How not to write a blog post
Here Mencius Moldbug provides an example of what I try to avoid doing when I write a post. 1. It’s very long, 32 screens of text. 2. It starts with a series of acronyms that are neither generally...
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Tag, you’re Hitler
The 7 June 2010 issue of The Nation includes a review of some book about Ayn Rand. The part of the review that I wanted to note came about halfway in, where the reviewer, Corey Robin, quotes some...
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Two items of interest to Classics types
When the world was young and I was in grad school, many of my classmates went to Rome to hang out with Father Reginald Foster. Reggie, as they all called him, is an American priest who at that time...
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The way out of philosophy runs through philosophy
There’s a phrase I’ve been thinking about for years, ever since I read it somewhere or other in Freud: “the moderate misery required for productive work.” It struck me as plausible; someone who isn’t...
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What is the point of having political opinions?
The other day, I saw a rather stinging tweet: Having political opinions is fun, but it’s the moral equivalent of posting a PornHub comment about what you’d do if you were that guy — BD Matthews...
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