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Paul Krugman links to an excellent take-down by Elizabeth Kolbert of the notorious climate change chapter in Superfreakonomics.
what’s most troubling about “SuperFreakonomics” isn’t the authors’ many blunders; it’s the whole spirit of the...
But I’m never going to read a long post on typography and philosophy, you object. There’s life! The whole world awaits me! Well, alright. Just look at this, then.
My colleague Axel Gelfert just launched a bold book review-type literary thing, The Berlin Review of Books. And he kindly invited me to review a big fat book, Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer: His Life, Work and Legacy, for his grand opening. So here...
This Boston Review piece by Tom Barry is very much worth reading, as a background briefing to the prison funding shenanigans recently described by Talking Points Memo.
These immigration prisons constitute the new face of imprisonment in America: the...
I feel like I'm reading a magazine when I read Crooked Timber. I mean this in a good way; I get to take my time with it, get to sip some coffee while I read. It's a good blog.