As I’ve said before, the Latham & Matthews transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys is a marvel of scholarship. I would be enjoying myself a good deal less if I didn’t have the footnotes to read. Take October 13 1664, for example, which I read last night. Pepys has just read a book containing […]
I’ve written before about the way debates about work-family conflict are framed. In general, men with children are not thought to face work/family choices. Alternatives to this way of thinking about it—analyzing the institutions that structure people’s choices, for example—are often dismissed as utopian flim-flam. It’s a good example of how social facts are mistaken […]
What must it be like to see the world from inside David Bernstein’s head?
QUOTE OF THE DAY: A London attorney:”You will never change the hearts and minds of terrorists by bombing them.”
That’s OK, I’ll settle for their death. I don’t think we changed the hearts and minds of too many Nazis during World […]
Like Tim Dunlop I am a little disgusted but not at all surprised to hear that President Bush will not be addressing Parliament on his visit to Britain. According to ABC News, “such a speech could invite the kind of heckling the president received when he spoke to the Australian Parliament last month.” One might […]
Who knew that the book publishing world was so full of bizarre criminal intrigue? If this were fiction, an editor would laugh at the absurdity of a villian whose alias was Melanie Mills but whose name in fact turned out to be Roswitha Elisabeth von Meerscheidt-Hullessem. Real life, having no moral to impart or plot […]
Evidence of a new irregular verb courtesy of an interview with Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition of America, full-time Washington lobbyist and mother:
Would you like to see American products like television shows flourish in Baghdad as well?
Oh, no. I hope they don’t show ‘’The Osbournes’’ over there … Shows like that wouldn’t […]
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