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  • Baseball: The Sport of Thinking Americans

    Baseball: The Sport of Thinking Americans1

    Sometimes you can be in the right place at the right time. For me, it was in the middle of the summer of 1958—a few days short of my 11th birthday. I was at Bill Meyer Stadium to see our minor league Knoxville (Tennessee) Smokies, wearing my little league uniform as I had come straight

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  • Barzun in 1999: The Internet Will Lead to Isolation and Chaos

    Barzun in 1999: The Internet Will Lead to Isolation and Chaos1

    Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) was one of the preeminent historians of his day. His magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence, traces the history of Western culture from 1500 to 2000. The book is required reading for anyone serious about understanding Western history, thought, and culture. It’s been more than a decade since I read From Dawn

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  • Barrel Logos and Buttermilk

    Barrel Logos and Buttermilk28

    Somewhere, in a conference room adorned with reclaimed barnwood paneling ordered in bulk from a supplier in Shanghai, a well-compensated executive must have declared: For the sake of relevance, we must redesign the Cracker Barrel logo. On and on this executive rambles about “modernity,” “Gen Z, “TikTok,” or whatever corporate buzzword is in fashion now.

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  • Bari Weiss Cancels the NYT, Avoiding the PC Guillotine

    Bari Weiss Cancels the NYT, Avoiding the PC Guillotine0

    Cancel culture has claimed another scalp. Only this time, things are a little different. Bari Weiss, an editor for The New York Times, has announced her resignation from the famed newspaper. Contrary to what usually happens in these situations, Weiss is not being forced out due to an ill-stated Tweet or a passing comment perceived

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  • Barbarians At The Banquet

    Barbarians At The Banquet0

    A reader shared this with me, and gave me permission to post it, on the condition that I edit it to prevent others from identifying this school or group. Which I have done: So I was in a long-established, semi-scholarly fraternal organization at an elite American university. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in it, because

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  • Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education

    Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education0

    What does an expert in learning think about how to learn math (and other things for that matter)? Barbara Oakley is the author of A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) and Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential; she is also a distinguished

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