I'm not sure how she'll feel when she wakes up tomorrow, but tonight Sarah Palin agreed with Joe Biden to extend to gay couples full civil rights equivalent to marriage; to allow the federal government to renegotiate not only the interest but also the principal on mortgages in danger of foreclosure; to cap carbon emissions; and to slam a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
Recently printed
- "Beer Buddies," Bookforum, February/March 2010
- "Terms of Infringement," The National (Abu Dhabi), 21 January 2010
- "Semantic Time Travel," New York Times Magazine, 10 January 2010
- "Against Camel Case," New York Times Magazine, 29 November 2009
- "Keats Speaks," New York Times Magazine, 1 November 2009
- "A Very Different Pakistan," New York Review of Books, 5 November 2009
- "It Happened One Decade," The New Yorker, 21 September 2009
- "Bootylicious," The New Yorker, 7 September 2009
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It," The National (Abu Dhabi), 2 July 2009
- "Toil and Trouble," New York Times Book Review, 28 June 2009
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- BibliOdyssey
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- Book, The
- Bookride
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- Clews: Historic True Crime
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- David Bromwich
- Different Stripe, A
- Earworms
- Em Dashes
- First Word, The
- Freebird Books and Goods
- Great Whatsit, The
- Henry Alford
- House of Mirth
- I've Been Reading Lately
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . .
- Intellectual Affairs
- J. Fitzsimmons Building, LLC
- Jacket Mechanical
- Journey Around My Skull, A
- Julian Kreimer
- Keith Gessen's Tumblr
- Koreanish
- Laura Miller's journal
- Light Reading
- Lost
- Matthew Price
- Maud Newton
- My Life and Thoughts
- N+1
- New York Review of Books
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- New Yorker
- NYR Blog
- OLM Blog
- Open University
- Panopticist
- Paper Cuts
- Patell and Waterman's History of New York
- Persephone Post
- Philo Biblos
- Pinakothek
- Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
- Queerantino
- Raw Thought
- Real Climate
- Rest Is Noise, The
- Review at the National (Abu Dhabi)
- Second Pass, The
- Shh! This is a working library
- Stacey D'Erasmo
- Streetsblog
- This Week in Petroleum
- Thought Catalog
- Three Percent
- Towle Road
- Triple Canopy
- Vanderblog
- Veer's The Skinny
- We Witnessed the Apocalypse
- Literary Detective
- Welcome to Ovando
19th Century Online
- 19th Century in Print (Library of Congress)
- 19th Century in Print (Cornell)
- 19th Century in Print (Michigan)
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
- American Periodicals (RSAP)
- Appleton's Cyclopedia
- Archives of Maryland Online
- Audubon's Birds of America
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1902)
- Byron Collection of NYC Images
- Castle Garden
- Chronicling America
- Cities in the Americas
- Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- Davies Project (American Libraries Before 1876)
- Digital Fraktur
- Documenting the American South
- Electronic Texts in American Studies
- Farber Gravestone Collection
- Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
- Historical U.S. Census Data Browser
- Home Economics Archive (HEARTH)
- Internet Library of Early Journals (U.K.)
- Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
- Legacy Tobacco Documents (20th C)
- Letters of Delegates to the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
- Moving Uptown: 19th-Century Views of Manhattan
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
- New York State Library's historical documents
- Old Sturbridge Village, History Learning Lab
- Peter Force's American Archives, 1774-1776
- Pocahontas Archive
- Realms of Gold: Map Catalog of the American Philosophical Society
- Smithsonian I.R.I.S. (Pre-1877 exhibition records)
- Smithsonian Photography Initiative
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
- The Lost Museum
- Times of London, 1785-1985
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
- Virtual New York City
- Voting America
- Washington State Digital Archives
- Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
About
- This blog is written by Caleb Crain. There's an email address for me at the top of my bio page. For older posts on this blog, please check the online archives. A selection of the blog's posts, spanning six years, has also been collected as a book, titled The Wreck of the Henry Clay.
