Are Facebook's Days Numbered?
August 17, 2010
Google arms itself to take on social networking - Forbes.com

Man with a Grand Title
August 13, 2010
Lunch with Lorin Stein, new editor of the Paris Review - Financial Times

A Revolution of the Mind
July 30, 2010
The Industrial Enlightenment put knowledge in the service of production, changing the course of history; my review of Joel Mokyr's "The Enlightened Economy:
An Economic History of Britain
1700-1850" -
The Wall Street Journal

More Sex and the Semicolon
"... the punctuation conversation has
shifted its focus from the apostrophe to a
more subtle and debatable punctuation mark:
the semicolon. The credit probably belongs
to Trevor Butterworth - The Boston Globe