On the Hill

I felt that my grasp of economics wasn't good enough, so I read articles, took econ class, talked to people, and did general research. I...

Finals are boring me. I have overestimated my powers of concentration. That is all. There is only so long the human brain can remain focused...

This is just a quick post about a phenomenon I've noticed lately. After a relatively calm winter and early spring, the last two weeks ha...

I was reading scholarly article after lengthy dissertation after weighty thesis after abstract paper and then I paused and I realized someth...

Because there's nothing like a thoughtful article about anonymity on the Internet: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_minerva/all/...

When I first started to realize that a lot of the authors I liked had web sites, I found myself reading a lot of writing advice. Every autho...

Dictionary.com's word of the day is bibelot! You heard it here first! (Well, probably.) Now go look up anfractuously. Just because you ...