Have I mentioned lately how much I like James Wood? In some literary circles, Mr. Wood has been described as a brutal critic who has debunked many of the country’s most admired writers, including Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon. Others regard him as one of the most respected critics of his generation. He… Continue reading

I like reading Telic Thoughts once in a while, but this post by Krauze leaves me scratching my head. If I understand him correctly, he is implying (by a rather tenuous association based on a book blurb) that Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross and E. O Wilson are Nazis. Or maybe the book blurb just… Continue reading

Dan Rayburn looks at the new deal between Microsoft and Limelight Networks and wonders why analysts aren’t seeing the big picture for the future of video delivery. Worth quoting at length: For starters, this announcement has nothing to do with Akamai or any other CDN provider. Some analysts did get it right, but way too… Continue reading

Hitchens, always worth reading: On the second front, everything I hear by e-mail from soldiers in Anbar province and some well-attested other reports suggest (see my Slate column of Aug. 13) that the venomous rabble of foreign murderers and local psychopaths that goes to make up AQM has insanely overplayed its hand, lost all hope… Continue reading

John Wilkins has another, eloquent, go at the ‘angry atheist’: But tolerance is a crucial facet of a civil society, as many wars have taught us. If a lab assistant is a Muslim, you may think that irrational, as irrational as supporting the wrong football team, but so long as she does good science and… Continue reading