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Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education "Beam makes light of Adler's inflexibility, but he does not entirely embrace the by-now clichéd disdain for the Great Books, because they represent something admirable that, perhaps, should be…
Merry Thursday! Here are some links for you. Science: Bad Economy Causes Bronx Zoo to Evict Animals Everything you wanted to know about dying in Massachusetts Swine flu and Woo Swine Flu Genes From Pigs Only, Not Humans or Birds Retrocyclins: a defence against HIV, reawakened after 7 million…
A lot of pundits seem dismayed and surprised at the moral depths to which Dishonest John McCain's campaign has sunk in the last week. I have to disagree. There is nothing surprising about it. This is his MO: do whatever he thinks is necessary. McCain has a long history of lack of principle and…
Attention conservation notice: A couple thousand words that can be summarized as: "Someone is wrong on the internet." Jerry Coyne has a longish reply to my post yesterday. He seems quite upset about it. He seems to think I'm very, very wrong. And yet he cannot manage to characterize my argument…