Balancing Frogs

I've never seen the 1990s TV show based on P.G. Wodehouse's stories, Jeeves and Wooster . But I know of its existence, and I have tw...

Lately UC Davis has been in the news rather a lot, in conjunction with recent news stories involving students being sprayed with pepper spra...

Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is an odd beast of a novel. Essentially a feature-length bit of Sherlock Holmes fanfic (I u...

It's rather astonishing that, almost thirty years after his death, Philip K. Dick's short stories and novels have inspired so many H...

I've been thinking lately about something I read earlier this year in Karen Armstrong's book The Great Transformation , and a conver...

For your education and edification about Taiwan folk religion, please enjoy my wife's videos from yesterday's Qingshan Wang celebrat...

Will Shakespeare Greenberg is a pot-smoking slacker grad student in Santa Cruz in 1986 whose primary passion, apart from getting high and ha...

Here's a tidbit that came out of the Occupy protests a while ago: in Chicago, some Board of Trade member decided to treat the protestors...

I like this kind of history. James Shapiro's 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare puts Shakespeare in context, describing th...

Back in January I made my prediction regarding the Republican nomination : there would be a titanic battle over the nomination, full of soun...

Macy Palmer is a contemporary sixteen-year-old living in suburban Minnesota, whose life is turned upside down when... wait for it... ...the ...

Original Zinn is a collection of interviews with Howard Zinn from approximately the years 2002-2005, in which the historian holds forth on ...