One surely must put all my desultory purchases of 2007 to good use: a 400D, a battered and worn macbook, about a hundred books, dozens of gadgets, a paunch from gallons of beer and alcohol, an account at smugmug, and various vaguely aesthetic objects and pieces of clothing.
In December I will spend a month in [...]
I start with the obvious starting-point: the gap between teaching and scholarship. For the most part, the conceptions of the arts and sciences which are presented to children in school are not those that contemporary scholars regard as being, in fact, the elementary principles of those subjects as now conceived. I think it was the [...]