Sobering thoughts from Leon Wieseltier: I cannot escape the foreboding that we are heading into an era of conflict, not an era of conciliation. I do not mean that there will be many wars, though I cannot imagine that the threat to American security from Al Qaeda and its many associates can be met without… Continue reading

Mark Helprin has had a belly full of talk radio.

Submitted for your edification…a little scene from classical literature to set the tone for Lent, 2008. [Shot in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, on one of the lonelier roads weaving out of Franconia Notch….]

Keeping Things in Perspective Dept.Biologist Steve Matheson tells me that myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is an interesting protein –and in one particular species, the yellow fever mosquito no less (Aedes aegypti), it contains the amino acid sequence FARRELL. Well, if that doesn’t keep a man humble, I don’t know what does.

It’s nice to see Scott Carson is back, and boy has his bulls&*t detector gone into high gear: As usual, though, the wackiest English cleric is no mere Bishop, it’s the Archwacko of Canterbury, who looks forward to the day when women will have to have their heads covered in church again–only this time it… Continue reading