I originally intended the piece below to be a brief comment to the Pensive Quill (PQ) after it published a piece about the late Fred Halliday, but it began to gain a life of its own until it had far to many words to fit into the comment gizmo and Anthony McIntyre at the Quill suggested he post it as an independent piece. A friend in the USA emailed me recently and said those who still suppor...
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OrganizedRage on 24th Aug 2010 (via organizedrage.com)
You might enjoy: Daniel Engber in Slate: The Underdog Effect Laura Jacobs in The New Criterion: Dogma and Diaghilev Robert Lane Greene in Intelligent Life: Words, Words, Words John Seabrook in The New Yorker: The Dilemmas of International Adoption
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CommentCentral on 5th May 2010 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
Crooked Timber has a piece on taste and social class in the USA culled from a 1949 edition of life. You can click through from there to a whole collection of Life magazines available at Google books. It’s fascinating stuff,...
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BloodAndTreasure on 21st Oct 2009 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
The wise words of the spendid recusant aristocrat, Edward Leigh, one of the very few Tories to remain a conservative and therefore to vote against the Iraq War: I have just spent a memorable week in northern Iraq as a guest of the Assyrian Christians, becoming the first British MP to visit the lawless land north of Mosul since 2003. When we think of Christianity here in the West we conjure up an i...
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DavidLindsay on 3rd Oct 2008 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)
from the Times on Lord Bingham and Michael O'Hanlon on the approach to the Iraq war person or persons commenting on threads on this blog have decided that there is a residence qualification for comment on Reading matters - I have let one comment through so readers can see. amazing.
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janestheone on 19th Nov 2008 (via janestheones.blogspot.com)
Pythagorean theorem: 24 words. Archimedes' Principle: 67 words. The 10 Commandments: 179 words. The Gettysburg address: 286 words. The US Declaration of Independence : 1,300 words. The US Constitution with all 27 Amendments: 7,818 words. EU regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words. Let's hope the cabbage tastes really good and worth every one of those words
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PopularAlliance on 18th Aug 2011 (via popularalliance.org)
If you think your life’s an unremitting tragedy, pity the proof reader at Gordon Brown’s publisher. The late and unlamented Prime Minister has been out of office for 58 days, typing 10,000 words a day. That’s 580,000 words already. Tolstoy took 4 years and 460,000 words to write War and Peace, Cervantes needed 10 years and nearly 500,000 words to write Don Quixote, and the Bible ...
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Spectator on 6th Jul 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
The BBC asks: How do you sum up a life story in two words? Well? How would you sum up this man's life story in two words, reader?
George Bush delivered his final speech from the White House last night. Comment Central takes a last look at the words that he chooses. America: 25 Freedom: 5 Nation - 15 Liberty: 4 World: 7 Safe: 4 Iraq: 4 Confidence:...
Today in Times Comment Rachel Sylvester: Brown's boom will end only in another bust Francis Fukuyama: The damage to Brand USA needs urgent repair Richard J. Evans: As Europe slumps, is the far Right rising? Matthew Chalmers: Where have our...
The loss of life on the Korean island of Yeonpyeong is a terrible tragedy, but it is also clear that the background to the incident is perceived differently depending upon the observer’s vantage point. From the point of view of North Korea, the context is that only yesterday South Korea and the USA started major military
