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December 2005

31: Coetzee keeps faith

29: Richard Rorty on McEwan's Saturday

29: Maybe Daniel Dennett ought to replace Dawkins as Advocate-in-Chief for atheism & evolution

28: Greg Easterbrook takes Dawkins to task

28: Nicholas Carr responds to the Long Tail's take on Wikipedia

28: Wikipedia from a probability perspective

28: More Schneier on Unchecked Presidential Power

22: Hallucinating Foucault

21: Schneier on Bush's Illegal Eavesdropping

21: Philip Roth in the Guardian

21: Pankaj Mishra says young Tibetans want to fight back

21: Apparently William T. Vollmann only writes parables.

19: Interview with Richard Dawkins

19: Richard Dawkins explains belief to his daughter

17: How Will the Universe End?

16: Wikipedia vs. Britannica

16: Iraq Torturers

11: Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture

10: Slow Man

01: Guardian calls Miyazaki a god

01: American Pessimism

01: Robert Trivers, Father of Sociobiology

01: An Evolutionary Psychologist looks at God

01: Andrew O'Hagan travels through the South in Katrina's Wake

November 2005

30: Image of God

30: Slow growth businesses and lifestyle entrepreneurs

30: Expatriate Bookstores

30: Aidan Wasley argues that Star Wars is an epic post-modern exploration of the nature of plot

27: Vietnam Comparisons

25: Youthful Joan

22: Human Stain

20: Denis Dutton on Literary Darwinism

19: Mark Schmitt on Bush's Ideology of Information

11: Literary Darwinists prefer stories that reveal our basic animal selves

08: Zadie Smith's Indecision

08: Pankaj Mishra examines JM Coetzee

08: Meaning of Words

05: An Event

04: Knowledge Workers

01: AlterEgo.net

01: Some of his work at the BBC

01: Gamers Revealed

October 2005

28: Paul Ford talks about the virtues and vices of distraction

21: Honoring Commitments

18: Time Magazine picks it's Top 100 Novels

17: Desperate Characters

16: Powells Interviews Salman Rushdie

13: Stir Crazy

10: A Profile of Joan Didion

10: Soldier asks McCain for guidance