Zombieism and Unemployment – A data-based investigation
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Not since the Washington Post’s “President Obama and the horse mask person” investigation has there been a data-driven news story of this import.
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For my friend Matthew Hilburn
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A eulogy for Matthew Hilburn delivered on July 3, 2012 at Congregation Etz Hayim, Arlington, Va.
Read MoreRemembering Paul Fussell's work
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Paul Fussell... combat veteran, literary scholar, satirist... his writing on the Great War, on travel, and a bunch of other topics shaped my worldview... I'm grateful to have had a chance to meet him once.
Back in 2009, I wrote this review of an illustrated edition of Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory for the now-defunct BookStudio blog of WETA.
Read MoreThe Baltimore Buzz
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via Confetta on Flickr
Listen to Eubie Blake's tune "Baltimore Buzz" as performed by the Shuffle Along Orchestra in 1921. One nugget from a first look at the Library of Congress' glorious National Jukebox.
Rabindranath Tagore Sesquicentennial
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Today is the birthday of Rabindranath Tagore. Here's a favorite passage from his work:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.
Where knowledge is free.
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls.
Where words come out from the depth of truth.
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection.
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit.
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action.
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.