Lewis Lapham, Individual Genius, and More

Lewis Lapham, the elegant and mischievous, patrician and populist editor who reinvented Harper’s, is dead. He was 89... NYTimes... Christian Lorentzen... Kelly Burdick... Nic Rowan... Lapham's Quarterly... more »

The most serious objections to the arguments of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus are found in the work itself... more »

Unlike computers, humans thrive on ambiguity and equivocation, on double entendre and sophistry, on blunders and embarrassments... more »

History is full of instances when science was subjugated to ideology, and science suffered. Is that happening now in America?... more »

Writers are susceptible to pressure from both market and peers. That’s not to say literary excellence isn’t the result of individual genius... more »