“Still think it’s so cool?”
With the very probable chance that we will see a Democratic presidential nominee who is a heavy smoker, it might pay to take
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Whose Balfour Declaration? Which Intifada?
Robert Irwin is not lying when he says, “So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) to be true.”
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Katie Couric and Modern Aramaic
The claim that modern Aramaic is the language of Jesus over-reaches a bit, but the dialect of Jesus does belong to the same
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The ones that got away
No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov By DAVID OSHINSKY (New York Times) In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. turned down the English-language
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Westminster Standard Deviations
This is an older piece (by Parker Williamson), but it is helpful in the way it lays out the precipating factors for the
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Fellows Working
Herein lies the first post of a tentative experiment with the blog phenomenon. Can one be more non-committal? Let me try: the title
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