Finding an Edge: Part OneHow bad are things in book publishing? It’s old news that the trade division of my old company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has not only laid off a significant percentage of its staff, but has announced it will not be acquiring new books for the entire year of 2009. This has prompted… Continue reading

David Pryce-Jones on Harold Pinter.

Ken Miller guest-blogs at Carl Zimmer’s site on the latest antics of Discovery Institute flak Casey Luskin. Update: Here’s part two. And part three.

Steve Matheson kicks off the new year in science with a great post on clonal interference.

For my New Year’s resolution, I’m going to follow Ed Feser and be much more serious about the Metaphysics of the Martini.