Words&Dirt

It is always painful to write a negative review of a beloved author, but less so when the book in question is as desultory and tedious as this one.  Neal Stephenson is probably my favorite living author, but making it through the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (which is really three books in one) […]

Mark Johnson was my senior thesis adviser at the University of Oregon.  More than that, he changed my life profoundly, starting with his Philosophy 101 lecture course on Philosophical Problems, which caused me to change my major after just one term at UO.  Johnson introduced me to the works of John Dewey––my intellectual hero––and also […]