The Global South Goes to the Vatican
I just finished reading Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation, which has been getting a lot of attention in the news, and my head is swimming. It’s an extraordinary text, and one […]
American Literature and the New Materialism (syllabus draft – UPDATED)
DESCRIPTION It is only a slight exaggeration to say that no intellectual development in the humanities in the past half century has been the cause of as much controversy as […]
Mall Melancholia
I was having a pretty good time at the mall today. It’s been a long week, and I spent the morning and early afternoon working pretty hard. My wife and […]
Bilaji Srinivasan and His Talk at Startup School 2013
This is an extraordinary talk by Balaji Srinivasan, who cofounded the genetics-testing company Counsyl. If nothing else, it provides a dramatic demonstration of what I mean when I said in […]
A Note About This Blog
I’m starting a new research project. It’s tentatively entitled “The Elusive Aesthetics of the Present.” As I work on it, I want to post random comments related to what I’m […]
