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- August 2009
- 31: Jews with Swords {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: great expectations {96} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: inquiring minds at the White House {44} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: The Franchise Affair {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: the English Montaigne? {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: inquiring minds want to know {4} by Alan Jacobs
- July 2009
- 31: testing, testing {49} by Alan Jacobs
- 19: sauce for the goose {20} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: one more note about that island {20} by Alan Jacobs
- 16: my official response to Noah's books-off-the-island post {17} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: a follow-up to that bleg {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: the green at heart {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: a homeschooler's bleg {72} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: in praise of oddballs {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: Would you send your children to Bill Gates U? {22} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: two scenarios {23} by Alan Jacobs
- June 2009
- 30: watch your language {33} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: is there still an American scene? {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: Rod, you can do better {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: Discovery preview {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: arguing, attacking, exposing, refuting {20} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: some thoughts on "Up" {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: Koko Taylor {2} by Alan Jacobs
- May 2009
- 26: American Babylon {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: lay off, McWhorter {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: human development {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: the dyes from gas-tar {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: The President at Notre Dame {172} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: time passages {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: Gladwell's generalizations {22} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: the future of archives {13} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: a farewell to Malazan {44} by Alan Jacobs
- April 2009
- 30: flags {37} by Alan Jacobs
- 30: education, skills, and the future {22} by Alan Jacobs
- 27: more sin, just for you {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 24: on the making of tiny distinctions {26} by Alan Jacobs
- 24: what's a poor teacher to do? {32} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: the forgiving Buckley {17} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: Steven Johnson on e-readers {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: conscience {35} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: Wunderkammer {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: Hell's classroom {11} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: more on Saletan and abortion in China {27} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: apology to Philip Pullman {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: me and the amoral menace {18} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: The Arcadian Friends {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: "death is better than life" {22} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: Aubade {17} by Alan Jacobs
- March 2009
- 30: T. S. Eliot and Animal Farm {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: further (mis?)uses of enchantment {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: tragic humanism {30} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: literacy and suicide {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: life skillz {17} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: those dark satanic mills {18} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: Freeman's exit {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: uncabled {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: moment of surrender {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: reader's report {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: Anthony Lane on violence and suffering {16} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: out of the blue {1} by Alan Jacobs
- February 2009
- 27: yet another self-serving announcement {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 27: Sita's Blues, lessened {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 25: son of text patterns {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: working hard, or hardly working? {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: FYI {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: Fish and Millman {23} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: Do-It-Yourself Tradition {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 19: exposed {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: it's not cricket {16} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: PayPal: an agony in five fits {18} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: traffic {21} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: what blogs can and can't do {21} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: the master narrative of secularization {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: The Great Cham of Literature and Mr. Larison {14} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: syllogism {18} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: Auden on nature and history {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: more on Coyne {75} by Alan Jacobs
- January 2009
- 31: the Culture11 stuff {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 30: dethroning Manjoo {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 30: reporting 101 {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: cost and effect {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: Get Your Deoxyribonucleic Acid Here! {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 28: defining fundamentalism {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: more bus slogans {24} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: associations {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 16: nation, stripped {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: I seek the wisdom of the Scene {14} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: evicted! {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: Poulos, Bono, etc. {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: silent houses {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: memories and surveys {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: Dreher and Neuhaus {11} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009 {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: pals {3} by Alan Jacobs
- December 2008
- 30: Frum and literature {37} by Alan Jacobs
- 27: reads to remember {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 26: Harold Pinter {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 24: a Christmas poem for all our readers! {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: dialogue redux {17} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: religions and dialogue {39} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: a really good writer {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: adequate secular reasons — or not {11} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: our hero {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: Text Patterns {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: Peter Singer and Jamie Bérubé {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: the Reformation's "minimum kit" {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: this is where we live {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: empirical confirmation of my previous two posts {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: ain't got time for that, part II {12} by Alan Jacobs
- November 2008
- 30: ain't got time for that {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 24: when barry met sally {36} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: pet politics {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: on being a Christian {45} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: centering {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: in the garden {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: prose and ho's {14} by Alan Jacobs
- 05: change we can believe in {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: how the world goes {33} by Alan Jacobs
- October 2008
- 29: Sir Richard rides forth to slay another dragon {18} by Alan Jacobs
- 26: reader's report {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: when I come to be old {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: um, maybe not {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: fun facts to tell and know (mummy edition) {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: museumgoing (or, my continued attempt to remind myself that there's more to life than politics) {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: living like kings {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: A Conspiracy of Paper {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: I regret to inform you. . . {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: get yourself anathematized {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: the long defeat {13} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: Jean-Marie whatshisname {9} by Alan Jacobs
- September 2008
- 26: libertarians and original sin {13} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: the dark side {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: Marilynne Robinson {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: what to do after {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: a caveat and/or a confession {50} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: Purgatory Mates {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 05: my last ever post on this topic, cross my heart and hope to die {22} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: more meta {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: clear lines {23} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: Third Ways {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: a public service announcement {30} by Alan Jacobs
- August 2008
- 31: knowledge {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 30: 24 hours later {45} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: people who need people {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: balancing and hypocrisy {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: medal counting {20} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: the fate of Iraq's antiquities {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: fallows on brooks {11} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: commentary {20} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: get 'em while they're hot {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: did I just hear what I think I heard? {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: codes {14} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: a poem by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (ca. 1972) {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: culinary conservatism, part II {9} by Alan Jacobs
- July 2008
- 31: on culinary conservatism {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 19: Carr's impatience — and mine? {13} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: children and happiness {26} by Alan Jacobs
- 16: a wise decision {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 16: threatening conditions {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: atheisms {35} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: the anguish of the Christian libertarian {13} by Alan Jacobs
- 12: the killer of puppies {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: nightmares do come true {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: Johnson vs. Bauerlein, third and final round {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: Milt and me {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: Jesse Helms {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: i know what you're thinking {50} by Alan Jacobs
- June 2008
- 29: the life of trees {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 26: the ball is round {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: these days {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: circumstantial innocence {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: the genie's offer {34} by Alan Jacobs
- 19: Johnson vs. Bauerlein, Round 2 {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: the two races {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: Johnson vs. Bauerlein, Round 1 {14} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: first impressions {29} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: more on towns {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: the weakness of religion {21} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: what to write on {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: his wheel, my time {10} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: Luttwak and Islam {15} by Alan Jacobs
- May 2008
- 28: free as in . . . {19} by Alan Jacobs
- 28: warning: theology ahead {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 26: my writing doesn't want to be free {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 25: Google and the English language {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: share and share alike {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 17: the authority Leon Kass forgot to cite {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 16: all's right with the world {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: ethics by Pinker {40} by Alan Jacobs
- 13: bias {14} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: get your ridicule here {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: MacDonald's over-egged pudding {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: great moments in higher education {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: the manifesto that isn't {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: down under {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: the bonds of community {22} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: and then there's this {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: now's your chance {0} by Alan Jacobs
- April 2008
- 23: how do you handle a hungry man? {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: I'll tell you whether you're happy, chump {16} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: whacky {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: my new motto {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: supercuts {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: tweet ontology {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: presentism {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: firing Yoo? {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: in memoriam {15} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: good news from Zimbabwe? {1} by Alan Jacobs
- March 2008
- 31: this literally drives me crazy {19} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: something I can't do {19} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: your better is driving me up the wall {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 19: honesty in playlists {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: take it as a challenge, if you want {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: savvy {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: connected lives redux {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: phone for you {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: always on shuffle {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: And One More Experience I'll Never Have {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 06: How I Know I'll Never Be a Wonk (Volume XXXIV) {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: no, not that Nicholson {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 02: anticipation {3} by Alan Jacobs
- February 2008
- 27: complications {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: why p.c. was invented {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: the sphere of concrete achievement {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: covering {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: best children's books {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: more on reading {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: Stephen Dubner on cheating: a response {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 20: the very best thing about the Obama campaign? {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 19: a kick in the . . . {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: outage and outrage {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: okay, okay, one little post on Rowan Williams {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: Tom Lantos {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 08: little surprises {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: Huckabee and anti-Mormonism {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: Steven Johnson on reading {6} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: same old show {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 01: Bad to the Bone. Or not. {9} by Alan Jacobs
- January 2008
- 28: a brief meditation on book reviewing and other matters {9} by Alan Jacobs
- 28: the greatest toy ever made {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 23: about that blood {11} by Alan Jacobs
- 22: after the wire {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 21: Birmingham {7} by Alan Jacobs
- 18: confessions of a Christian homeschooler {37} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: Mormons, antiquity, and plausibility {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 05: writing words {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: Jonathan Chait, football guru {8} by Alan Jacobs
- December 2007
- 31: My Happy New Year to Andrew Sullivan {1} by Alan Jacobs
- 30: the conservatism of open-source software {8} by Alan Jacobs
- 29: bad reading {12} by Alan Jacobs
- 14: the Mitchell report and the great temple {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 11: Clarence Thomas, Jeffrey Rosen, and Bulverism {5} by Alan Jacobs
- 09: illegitimacy revisited {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 04: Chinese meritocracy {0} by Alan Jacobs
- 03: The Devil's Party {2} by Alan Jacobs
- November 2007
- 21: Shibboleth {4} by Alan Jacobs
- 16: editorial control {2} by Alan Jacobs
- 10: the perfidy of the barista {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 07: praise the Lord with music {1} by Alan Jacobs
- October 2007
- 23: the gay headmaster {3} by Alan Jacobs
- 15: hearts and heads {1} by Alan Jacobs
