
A Few Thoughts About Blogging
I have a few thoughts about blogging. (I promise I’ll be brief.) This article, from Prospect Magazine, is a brief interview with Leon Wieseltier. Nothing about any of that short article may mean a tinker’s dam to you, and truth be told, I share a pinch of your disinterest. (One need only spend a...

The Public Intellectual
William Deresiewicz takes a rather sharp blade to a book he recently perused. Apparently, the book suggests an alternative to a college education: Start a blog. Among the things it suggests that kids might do to “create and share value” absent a formal higher education is this: “Become a Public Intellectual.” In five easy...