Friday procrastination: link love – Hitchens, Rushdie, and Randy Newman
What Rebecca has been reading.
August 2008
Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day: Jingoist v. Jingo
The Olympics can always bring out the Jingoist, (or is it Jingo?), in just about anyone. For ‘jingoist’ and ‘jingo’, the former has come to displace the latter as the agent noun corresponding to ‘jingoism’. A jingoist is a belligerent patriot and nationalist who favours an aggressive foreign policy.
Climax – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is “climax”.
So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy: The Answers
The answers to yesterday’s Thomas Hardy quiz.
The Great Terror: An Introduction
An excerpt from The Great Terror.
The Haberdasher Displays His Wares and Escapes
Anatoly looks at the word “haberdasher”.
So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?
See how much you know about Thomas Hardy with our tricky questions.
Unalaska, Alaska
Ben considers moving to Alaska.
New Directions in Literary Criticism:
Studying War and the Military
Keith Gandal is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum and Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film. He is also the author of a novel, Cleveland Anonymous. His most recent book The Gun and […]
The Race Card
The race card in our current elections.
Interest Groups and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
A look at the role interest group participation played in the recently decided U.S. Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller.
Robotic Sheepdogs: A Thought Experiment
An excerpt from David McFarland’s book Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs.
Friday procrastination: link love – blogs, the Booker Prize, and Bethlem Royal Hospital
What Kirsty has been reading recently.