"Are American writers, artists, and thinkers truly prepared to admit that Islamofascism is a real, and even imminent, threat to everything they are accustomed to thinking, saying, and creating?" – Tom Mallon, at the American Scholar.
He has nine other questions about the future of the humanities in America. He’s much too gloomy about the web, I think. But he’s right to worry about the increasing lack of quiet, time and space to think and read.
The Dish 