Thus Blogged Anderson

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a...

He also predicted the rising importance of science-based industries and of new technical elites. Indeed, in 1967, he predicted something lik...

Custom is the whole of equity for the sole reason that it is accepted. That is the mystic basis of its authority. Anyone who tries to brin...

Just in time for the Fifth Circuit's certification to the Miss. Supreme Court of whether tort damage caps are constitutional , Kevin Dru...

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Political Wire reports that Eliot Spitzer will soon be publishing his new book, Government's Place in the Market . Inasmuch as Spitzer ...

Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world establish...

French premier Sarkozy got himself booed in Alsace : Speaking to representatives of the agricultural industry, Mr Sarkozy said he could acce...

Philip Thomas reports a 5th Circuit decision certifying to the Mississippi Supreme Court the question of whether the statutory caps on non...

The lost tomb of Caligula has been found , according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the n...

Via Bookslut , this online gadget will tell you the NY Times bestsellers for the week you were born, at least if you weren't born befor...

Some novels are set in the war. With one exception none illuminates it. If future generations want to know what the second world war was l...

The NYT has pictures (not from the scene!) of the six people killed at Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords' town-hall meeting this...

[Empson] belonged to and became president of a society called the Heretics, membership of which was conditional on a willingness to reject ‘...

Or five books about misery , as chosen and discussed by Renata Salecl, "Slovenian philosophy professor." That sounds like some se...