The Baroque Cycle
The other night, I finished a 2,700-page novel. Well, it was three novels, actually, but they line up in a… Read More »The Baroque Cycle
Ideas
Korn Nuts?
First came Bowie Bonds, which David Bowie used to cash out the future value of his catalog. Now, in a… Read More »Korn Nuts?
More Stupid Logo Tricks
Corporate America is at it again, following the federal government back into the 1970s. Fast on the heels of Intel,… Read More »More Stupid Logo Tricks
Cosmopolitanism
A provocative piece in Sunday’s NYT Magazine about time, and change, and culture, and reason, from Kwame Anthony Appiah. A… Read More »Cosmopolitanism
Morals’ Law
In the wake of the mid-December revelations of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program (and here’s the latest, reporting that Deputy… Read More »Morals’ Law