Month: July 2011

  • July 30, 2011
    If Pico and the alchemists are read carefully, one begins to understand the modern obsession with space exploration, cloning, and…
  • July 29, 2011
    (What follows is the text of the remarks that I delivered at the recently concluded I.S.I. Honors Program. The conference…
  • July 28, 2011
    But that is not so with computers, for no matter how many doctorates one holds in computer science, at some…
  • July 27, 2011
    Perhaps the tension will be useful when it comes time to make something of what is. Just be sure you…
  • July 26, 2011
    "The Geek Squad" has put out a back-to-school advertisement which argues that technology will "make school easier" - mostly by…
  • July 26, 2011
    In Bingo-land it is not appropriate to talk about yourself until you have found some shared link. In general it…
  • July 25, 2011
    (Or, Fix Your Darn Windows)
  • July 23, 2011
    This “summer of Hell,” to borrow Peters’ phrase, has had me in too many hospital/doctor waiting rooms. But as I…
  • July 20, 2011
    If only such voices as that of Lord Maurice Glasman received a hearing in today's Democratic Party. According to this…
  • July 20, 2011
    Caitlin Flanagan has weighed in on the phenomenon of students studying abroad, and the organizations which profit from them doing…
  • July 20, 2011
    FPR's first annual conference will be held at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD on September, 24, 2011. The…
  • July 19, 2011
    The speculative greed of the many—the suckers—is what enables the few to pull off their uncreative destruction. But not only…