the cavorting pig

Infinite Thought is in San Francisco. Checks out some socialist realism, quotes: 'No nation has ever treated the pig as cruelly, as bar...

wikiwonderland

A brief history of wikis, with an interview of Jimmy Wales (a founder of Wikipedia) and Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki), by Mike Rogo...

you don't need a diploma, you need a work ethic

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution on education and signaling, here If education is pure signaling, just give everyone a standardized test i...

hatherley on godard

It's long been my suspicion that when people say they don't like Brecht, and Brechtian techniques, what they really mean is they...

logistical Berlin

I went to Robben & Wientjes to rent a van for the Schlafsofa. The girl at the desk asks: Are you Canadian? (I am speaking in German.) ...

Pardon me, my name is Stimson

The dollar has gone into freefall. An editor has offered to publish Your Name Here, explaining that he loves Joyce, Beckett and Pynchon and ...

flabbergasted

Mark Liberman has chosen Wiggins' The Shadow Catcher over Tom McCarthy's Remainder in the Tournament of Books . Readers of this blog...