Blog Archive 2011 Voice and Tone Nov 04 2011 Vannevar Bush’s Democracy: “Modern Arms and Free Men” Oct 01 2011 “Because the seams are hid from us, you see.” Sep 17 2011 “A Man in Time of War”: How Colonial Boys Became American Men, 1765-1775 Aug 29 2011 Believing in Belief: William James’s “Varieties” and the New Atheism Aug 22 2011 Space Trek Aug 04 2011 My Favorite Lincoln Story Aug 01 2011 “Zap Gremlins…” Jul 20 2011 Tip: Hide the Mac OS X Dock, Quick Jun 30 2011 History as Contest Jun 30 2011 William Hogeland on not learning history Jun 18 2011 Why You Can’t Quote Philip K. Dick Jun 17 2011 Geoff Nunberg Reviews James Gleick’s “The Information” May 24 2011 John Adams’s Quarter-Life Crisis Apr 28 2011 Bob Dylan in China Apr 12 2011 Harbottle Dorr and the Boston Massacre Apr 03 2011 Book Review: “Great Soul” Mar 28 2011 UC Berkeley Students in the Loyalty Oath Crisis, 1949-1951 Feb 27 2011 The Supreme Love and Revolutionary Funk of Cornel West, Philosopher of the Blues Feb 12 2011 Gordon Wood reviews Jill Lepore’s “The Whites of Their Eyes” Feb 01 2011 Build a PirateBox for ~$100 Feb 01 2011 Tip: Kindles Ship With Minesweeper Feb 01 2011 A Mind in the Water Jan 30 2011 Scott Nearing, “Social Sanity,” and Eugenics Jan 29 2011 Aaron Swartz: 2010 Review of Books Jan 29 2011 2010 Newspaper Culture in Old California Oct 09 2010 Mark Twain on Constellations Sep 12 2010 Breathe Our Iodine: Big Sur Apr 30 2010 Robert Hooke: The Keith Richards of Science Apr 09 2010