Articles of Note

The Internet has revived the dream of access to all knowledge. The dream is naïve. The Internet has not liberated curiosity, but bent it to corporate profit... more »

New Books

Meaning in verse comes in two kinds: that which is immediately discernible and that which is not, but then explodes. Gerard Manley Hopkins believed in both... more »

Essays & Opinions

The new paternalism is so nonconfrontational, anti-ideological, and unwilling to claim moral authority that it can hardly be called ?paternal.' Let's call it ?maternalism?... more »