The Most Influential Americans: Ben Franklin and the Revolutionaries
Ed Gaustad weighs in on the Atlantic’s top 100 most influential Americans.
Actually, Like Cures Like (?)
Anatoly Liberman looks at filler words, like and you know.
Literary Criticism For the Masses
John Mullan, author of How Novels Work looks at the rise of literary criticism among the masses.
Christmas Island
Ben’s Place of the Week
Christmas Island is Ben’s Place of the Week.
Our Favorite Books: Part One
Our favorite books.
Colonel Oates to Ian Fleming in Less Than Six Degrees
From the Civil War to James Bond.
Friday Procrastination
Some great ways to waste your time.
This Day in History: Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
A tribute to Rosa Parks.
Oxford Companion to Wine
ice wine vs. Icewine
The Oxford Companion to Wine helps us learn about ice wine and Icewine.
Oxford Companion to Food
Pie in the Sky
Read the pie entry from the Oxford Companion To Food.
The Partition of Palestine
An excerpt which looks at the partition of Palestine.
Monthly Gleanings: November, 2006
Anatoly Liberman answers some questions readers have submitted.
Judge Posner in Second Life
Judge Richard Posner in Second Life.
A History of Violence: David Cronenberg’s Morality Play
Nicole Rafter’s monthly column examines the film, A History of Violence.
Mismatch: The Modern World and Humanity
A look at how our world no longer fits us.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music: An Excerpt
Aimee Mann
An excerpt from the Encylopedia of Popular Music’s Aimee Mann entry.