Friday procrastination: link love – Doctor Who, David Tennant and the Daily Show
What Cassie has been reading this week.
The Constitution in 2020
An excerpt from The Constitution in 2020.
Mumbo-Jumbo – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is “mumbo-jumbo”.
Droll but Harmless: The Word Scallywag
Anatoly Liberman explores various cultural forms and meanings of the term “scalawag.”
Is it true what they said about John Dillinger?
I’m reasonably sure that most American boys who reached adolescence in the 1960s knew Dillinger’s dick. It was enormous, preserved in formaldehyde at the Smithsonian Institution. Friends of mine who grew up on the east coast told me years later that on high school trips to Washington, the boys would spread out and look for it.
Remembering Walter Cronkite
Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com. In the article […]
Walter Cronkite and the Decline of the Evening News
Donald Ritchie says goodbye to Walter Cronkite.
Amazon Fail 2.0: Bookseller’s Big Brother removes Orwell’s Big Brother from Kindles everywhere
Dennis Barron looks at Amazon’s decision to pull copies of Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from individual’s Kindle libraries.
Behind the scenes at JAMA and the Archives journals: top ten mistakes authors make, part I
Publishing a new edition of a style manual, particularly a lengthy, detailed manual that covers a ridiculous amount of technical material (Hello, ‘AMA Manual of Style’!), is a gruelling process. In our case, it involved ten people meeting for at least an hour every week for more than a year.
The Legacy of Harper’s Magazine, William Dean Howells
and Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer
John R. MacArthur gives us a preview of Tuesday’s Bryant Park Reading Room discussion.
Friday procrastination: link love – the FBI, Apollo 11, and the Krugman Blues
What Rebecca has been reading.
Chrome OS:
A Shiny New Model for the Software License?
Douglas E. Phillips looks at Google’s new operating system.
Moving House: An Excerpt
An excerpt from On Living in an Old Country by Patrick Wright.
Camera – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is “camera”.
Voting and Corporate Governance:
Having a Say
Chris Mallin writes on voting and corporate governance.
Moving Beyond War
Douglas P. Fry looks at the North Korea nuclear crisis in a new light.