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A Wacky Saga of Life, Literature, and Intellectuals of a Certain Vintage
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet tr. by Sam Taylor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pp., 2017 "Life is not a novel. Or...
David Matthews
Apr 26, 20188 min read
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, April 21, 2018
To say that I am no fan of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is to understate by a factor of several. The best that can be said of her is that...
David Matthews
Apr 21, 20183 min read
Tom Nichols and the death of expertise; or, experts and the rest of us (Part 2 of 2)
Part 1 of this two-part essay and review of The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols was published on April 17, 2018. Tom Nichols tells us...
David Matthews
Apr 19, 201811 min read
Tom Nichols and the death of expertise; or, experts and the rest of us (Part 1 of 2)
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols Oxford University Press [2017],...
David Matthews
Apr 17, 201818 min read
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, April 14, 2018
A draft for this post composed yesterday prior to 6 pm PDT opened with an expression of fear that the president will bumble and bluster...
David Matthews
Apr 14, 20185 min read
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, April 7, 2018
That migrant caravan has the president in such a tizzy he's calling in the military or the National Guard or something to deal with this...
David Matthews
Apr 7, 20186 min read
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