By • Oct 29,2008

Adventures with the Daily Mail

Perhaps it’s because I’m a bad person, but I took rare delight in this article about Bono, narcissist and overrated singer: His humanitarian campaigning has earnt him the nickname St...

By • Oct 29,2008

A Liberal Education in Iraq?

Sometimes we educators in America worry that our universities are becoming too “professional” – that all the old notions of what constitutes a broad liberal education have fallen prey to...

By • Oct 28,2008

Postscript

Sonny points out that I was unclear in my earlier post: I’m talking about the WTC bombing of February 1993, hence the reference to attacking Afghanistan in 2000 or 2001....

By • Oct 28,2008

Re Richard Dawkins

Apropos Dan’s fine series of posts: …I shall be talking about God a great deal, and this is a word which offends unholy people just as badly as words like...

By • Oct 28,2008

Why I Love Apple

I love Apple Computers because they’re quite possibly the most elitist company in existence. Here’s a snippet from their conference call today: Jobs and other Apple execs addressed questions related...