Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Alan Jacobs’s recent essay “The Watchmen.” Michael Eric Dyson’s “Cornel West’s Rise and Fall” Marilynne Robinson’s “Fear” Robinson’s interview with…

General Introduction – More weather talk – Feed problems Not Etymology but History – David turns to the OED – The Enlightenment – Byron’s parody – Intellectual vs. physical –…

Garry Wills goes all Nate Gilmour on Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Torrance Kelly. OH SNAP. Susan Wise Bauer gets hate mail from both sides. Do we worship our partisan political…