Alan Jacobs noticed how Twitter made him intemperate, rigid, narrow, simplistic. "I pray more and more that God would teach me when it’s time to shut up"... more »
The venal side of libraries. Thieves, hoarders, shameful caretakers: Librarians love books but sometimes can’t be trusted with them... more »
Before the sum total of human knowledge exploded, it was possible to know everything. The last man to do so was Sabine Baring-Gould... more »