A condensed guide to the instruments in a lawyer’s conceptual toolkit.

Novels of European-American manners, and psychological and philosophical texts, go down more smoothly with tales of bank robberies.

Returning to the Greek and Roman epics with the wisdom and the weight of the years.

Edmund Wilson traces the paths to socialism and literary modernism.

I finally make my way to the lighthouse.

Practical suggestions for coping with both inevitable and “evitable” risk.

Forensic science for TV show couch detectives.

If the mechanical shark looks hokey, just film the dorsal fin and crank up the John Williams score.

The life and times of the English existence verb.

And on distinguishing history from History.

Parity in sport leagues should be an emergent not engineered feature.