The Rhine River

Nigh is the time to switch your bookmarks . MA is the New BA I think I’ve complained about this trend before. MA programs are used to cull p...

If you haven't switched over yet, do so now . Autonomy in the Academy The Brussels-based think tank, BRUEGEL, is rankling some feathers...

To whom this may concern: Will an American president ever utter the phrase, “crimes committed in the name of the American people”? After a...

I've thought about this for a while, perhaps too long, but I am joining the great blog migration and setting up in Wordpress over at som...

It’s been a while since a new addition of Hate Watch. The minor victories of neo-nazi parties in state in local elections were tempered with...

It must be fall semester. I know because Jonathan Dresner burdens his students with my writing. Actually, it's a great syllabus that...

It's not about the sex, it's about the public lewd behaviour. Sure, whatever. Larry Craig's misdemeanor has driven a lot of ...

How times can Christiane Amanpour repeat the phrase " G-d's Warriors ," either directly or in variation? What ought to have b...

In my previous post about Prof. Gregory Clark's forthcoming book , I set out several issues that I felt would disfavor a genetic cause ...

The Discoveries of America--yes, I'm putting it into the plural. It seems like everyone was there before Columbus, like the English and...

Another article in Die Welt about a city reconstructing its pre-war city center . This time, it's Kaliningrad, currently a Russian cit...

Japanese workers are shorter and have smaller fingers. Thus, they are better suited to working with electronics than Americans. That’s wha...

Vilhelm Konnander's Weblog has an important post on the political turns of contemporary Poland: How to deal with the past, has become t...

From " The Sense of Place " by Wallace Stegner: But if every American is several people, and one of them is or, would like to be ...

Some of my thoughts on Germany's mania to recover the architectural past at Cliopatria.