You! Drop what you’re doing and read Chris Mooney’s critique of George Will’s hissy little column on “global cooling.” Mooney’s article is everything that op-ed writing ought to be: polite, well-reasoned, utterly devastating. I wish that all writers cared so much about explaining the problems of reliable knowledge that subtend superficial and overheated policy disputes. [...]
“I hear an army charging upon the land;” at MIT, a group of students have put Ezra Pound’s Des Imagistes project online, including James Joyce’s remarkable poem. “What pure motives, and purely carried out:” My Life in Books has been reading Willkie Collins’ The Moonstone. You should read it, too. Remember my itty bitty jab [...]
Some of my research has been into the correspondence of Archibald MacLeish, the poet, playwright and a B-list member of the Lost Generation. During World War II, MacLeish served as Librarian of Congress and wrote propaganda. Around this time, Ezra Pound was seized by Allied forces during the invasion of Italy and accused of treason [...]
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