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ID:2109
Title:Crooked Timber
URL:http://crookedtimber.org/
Category:Society: Politics
Description:Founded in July 2003 as a merger of several blogs, and now authored by an international collaboration of academics.
Madeleine L’Engle is weirder than I remembered - Sat, 19 May 2012 06:07:24 +0000
My books-for-kids threads have been good conversation starters so let’s keep it up. Zoe (age 10) and I have been listening to Madeleine L’Engle on audiobook. Listening to an audiobook while drawing is an excellent use of a Saturday afternoon. I remember reading The Time Quintet [amazon], I think when I was in 7th grade [...]

Good lines - Sat, 19 May 2012 03:03:27 +0000
From Curtis White’s article on philanthropy in the current issue of Jacobin: In the United States, everyone may enjoy freedom of speech so long as it doesn’t matter. For those who would like what they say to matter, freedom of speech is very expensive. It goes on: It is for this reason that organizations with [...]

The death of Flickr? - Wed, 16 May 2012 07:35:55 +0000
Gizmodo has a piece proclaiming the death of Flickr at the hands of the hateful and incompetent Yahoo. In many ways, Flickr has been the most important site on the internet to me (after CT of course) for the past five years. There isn’t another site that allows people who are serious about photography (including [...]