Benkler on structure/agency May 6, 2008

I am concerned with actual human beings in actual historical settings, not with representations of human beings abstracted from their settings. These commitments mean that freedom and justice for historically situated individuals are measured from a first-person, practical perspective. No constraints on individual freedom and no sources of inequality are cat- egorically exempt from review, [...]

This thing’s not dead April 12, 2008

I swear!

New blog March 30, 2008

Created a new blog for research notes and less well-formed thoughts. All the inchoate stuff that has been appearing here of late now will go there instead.

November 18, 2006

My roommate: “Everyone needs a little bureaucracy in their lives.”
Egad.

And here I discover myself September 30, 2006

(along with many of my friends)

The Gifts of the Jews June 18, 2006

ReviewMedium: booksAuthor: Thomas Cahill
A lot of review for anyone who took Sprague religion. But I loved the dig at the postmodernists.

Things I love about New Orleans June 8, 2006

What do I love about New Orleans?
The way the ground jiggles like a bed of jell-o when an 18-wheeler drives by.

Experiments with HDRI May 30, 2006

Recently I’ve discovered a remarkable photo-making process called High Dynamic Range Imaging. Essentially, you take a series of standard photos of the same subject at different exposure levels and then combine them into a single image. So, I took these five photos:
And combined them into this:
Beautiful!
(P.S. Yes, the vacation is going well.)

The Right Stuff May 19, 2006

ReviewMedium: books
What a great book. Not as fundamentally profound as, say, some of the works on the Lit Hum syllabus (C&P, nudge nudge), but nevertheless, a deeply engrossing and well-researched tale woven by a master storyteller. Not once did my attention wander. What’s more, I find Wolfe’s prose style quite engaging (albeit sometimes, very rarely, [...]

Letter to the editor re: my recent New Orleans piece April 11, 2006

Today the Spectator published a letter to the editor from Brian D. Perry Sr., a former New Orleans policeman, in response to my most recent op/ed. Read the full letter here.
New Orleans Native Relates to Submission On Pre-Storm Culture
“Don’t Forget to Remember New Orleans,” by Mark Holden (April 10, 2006), rings true to many of [...]