The Meaning of Seaweed, and More
Lesson from a deserted MLA conference: In the humanities, emergency conditions are the new status quo ... more »
Julien Benda memorably denounced intellectuals seduced by political power — and then failed to heed his own warning ... more »
To 19th-century algologists, seaweed was useless and abstruse, with no other purpose than to convey the mystery of t…