Kindle, iPhone: both are cool/irksome. But which device is the harbinger of Things to Come? Pointing out that “the Kindle is more like a...

Unlike his namesake and ancestor, FRANCIS BACON (1909-92) was never granted a knighthood for his services to educated society. Nor should he have been....

Boston Dynamics, creators of the quadrupedal robot “BigDog,” bring you “Petman,” a robot modeled on the gait of Mr. Natural. Unlike Mr. Natural, Petman...

And now, everybody knows it. “I often describe deconstruction as something which happens. It’s not purely linguistic, involving text or books. You can deconstruct...

She lacerated the enemies of pleasure.

A new Levi’s advertisement uses a wax-cylinder recording of what is believed to be Walt Whitman reciting his own poem.   Of course, it’s...

No one has come closer than NESTOR MAKHNO (1888-1934) to establishing that paradox, the anarchist nation. Born in rural poverty in the Ukraine, he...

The owl and the pussycat went to jail, for something the piggy-wig said. They sat for a while with no hope of a trial,...