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Asides

  • November 1, 2013
    I'm in the middle of writing a short essay on John Crowe Ransom's first book, Poems about God (1919).  In…
  • October 31, 2013
    When I think we can't hit new lows, I run across something like this: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/selfies-at-funerals/280972/ I am hardly familiar with…
  • October 31, 2013
    For those readers at all interested in Angela Merkel's dismay, or the reach of our homeland spy agencies, here are…
  • October 30, 2013
    There's a computer program called Lexile that purports to measure the complexity of books and thereby determine the grade level…
  • October 24, 2013
    Anyone blessed enough to be within shouting distance of Batavia, New York, this Saturday, October 26, at 8 pm is…
  • October 24, 2013
    Every semester, on the first day of the poetry courses I teach, I hold up Lilla Cabot Perry’s portrait of…
  • October 20, 2013
    Hillsdale, Mich. Misery loves company, they say, but maybe not if the company is Comcast. Yes, I have returned to…
  • October 18, 2013
    Hillsdale, Michigan. Thanks to Comcast (who says I never thank them), I noticed a headline from the Daily Beast today…
  • October 15, 2013
    Scale matters and a one-size-fits-all solution is a function of a state that exceeds a proper scale (and ignores a…
  • October 14, 2013
    "I love Old October so/I can't bear to see her go," sang the Hoosier Poet of this most resplendent and…
  • October 14, 2013
    In ISI's on-going series titled "Conservatism: What's Wrong with it and How Can we Make it Right?" Gerald Russello argues…
  • October 11, 2013
    From The American Conservative, my review of Jesse Walker's terrific new book The United States of Paranoia.