Since it seems that all policy decisions now have to be justified on economic grounds, I suppose it made sense for the Ontario government to turn to a former banker and current economist for advice on the future direction of the province. The 600-plus-page document Don Drummond produced in response has been extensively covered in [...]

Once upon a time — more than a decade ago now — I thought I’d be a film maker. As it turned out, I preferred my life as an academic, but today I discovered that two of my short films have been up on Vimeo for a while, thanks to my old D.O.P.’s efforts. Here’s [...]

After various disruptions and diversions, here’s the fifth and final part of my series on manuscript annotations in playbooks in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

I thought it would be fitting to finish up with a couple of Shakespearean references. The discovery of a new mention of Shakespeare is, after all, one of the great archival [...]

Now that season 2 of Sherlock is over (NOOOO!), I just want to say that as far I’m concerned, the massive downer that was “A Scandal in Belgravia” was to some extent remedied by “The Hounds of Baskerville,” despite the visual wank-fest that was Sherlock’s “mind-palace” (no-one should ever be made to look like Tom [...]