Twitter as Aphorism
For University of Pennsylvania Professor Eric Jarosinski, Twitter's formal constraint of just 144 characters has freed him of the endless equivocations of academic prose.
Winter Storm Pax and the Power of Names
As Winter Storm Pax pushes across the eastern United States this week, I find myself pondering the power of names.
The Quest for Thriving Communities
Posted on February 13, 2014
in Common Place
This blog has one abiding concern: What does it mean and take for a community and its residents to thrive?
Self-Knowledge in the Age of the Digital Panopticon
A short piece in the British thought journal Prospect, "Quantified Self: The Algorithm of Life," reminds me once again that satire of the dystopian variety can barely keep up with what the real world throws at us every day.
The European Issues
Readers whose interest has been whetted by the Harper's symposium on Europe should look forward to the Hedgehog's diverse delvings into Europe's current crisis.
The Best Case for the Humanities
Many years ago, a friend of mine was asked what she planned to do with her English degree after she graduated from university. Her reply was terse but only partly ironic: "I plan to read novels."
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