6 questions for Richard Posner
by Luke Rodgers on March 17, 2010
Interview from March 2010 issue of Haper’s with Richard Posner, judge on U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and law professor at University of Chicago, regarding his apparent 180° turn regarding laissez-faire capitalism. Six Questions for Richard Posner on Capitalism (…)
Why do all thesauri seem to suck?
by Luke Rodgers on February 25, 2010
When I’m using a thesaurus, it generally is not because I want to find, as a synonym for “sad,” a word like “gloomy” or “unhappy.” It’s because I’m looking for something like “lugubrious.”
Show me a thesaurus that will give me (…)
Unabomber weighs in on ancient Egyptian dwarf-worship
by Luke Rodgers on February 24, 2010
Letter to the Editor, New York Review of Books, Vol. 52, No. 12, July 2005
In “Survival of the Smallest” {NYR, March 10], István Deák writes on page 22: “In ancient Egypt, dwarfs were often venerated like gods.” Deák here is (…)
Goethe-recognition FAIL
by Luke Rodgers on February 21, 2010
Goethe in same room as unaware Hölderlin; hilarity ensues
Logic of post-modern thought
by Luke Rodgers on February 19, 2010
The role played by “sympathy” in the middle ages, as Foucault develops it in The Order of Things, is today played by “contagion” (though we don’t know it).
Chekov on Nihilism
by Luke Rodgers on February 11, 2010
Excerpt from a letter, 1892.
“Your opinion doesn’t have to be based on facts”
by Luke Rodgers on February 10, 2010
According to a Teabagger
Inspiration
by Luke Rodgers on January 23, 2010
is a dish best served unexpectedly
