On Pilgrimage and Package Tours

All “authentic” travel becomes a kind of secular pilgrimage.

It is remarkable how little the usage of vibes has changed from the era of the counterculture to the present day.

A world that has tossed out the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in favor of Wikipedia is not necessarily a richer one.

Being mean is not the same as being cruel, but meanness can become cruelty.

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The Varieties of Travel Experience

Nouns became verbs, verbs became nouns, and both became passive and adjectival.

For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.

Blood as discourse in the Christian imagination.

What prospects are there today for assessing American politics and history from an early Hofstadterian remove?