published articles

In the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)

• If Vonnegut is Literature, What is Jacqueline Susann?
  April 5, 2002
• All Hail Oprah's Book Club
  May 10, 2002
• Where Have All the Proofreaders Gone?
  November 15, 2002
• Whatever Happened to Encyclopedic Style?
  February 28, 2003

In Skeptical Inquirer

• The Butterfly Theory of Truth
  July-August 2003

In the Vocabula Review (subscription required)

• Shoptalk
  August 2002
• Rendering unto Caesar Even That Which Is Not His
  November 2002
• Words and Powers
  December 2002
• The Law of PeepeePoopoo
  April 2003
• Pornographorhea
  July 2003

In the "Irascible Professor" blog

• To the Class of '04 (A Commencement Address Not Given)
  May 23, 2004

In the NRC Handelsblad (Rotterdam; paper edition)

• Het slagveld van de waarheid
  December 24, 2004

In the Chicago Tribune (English version of the preceding article; $ required)

• Knowledge in U.S.: I know I'm right and you're wrong
  March 20, 2005

On TCS Daily (formerly TechCentralStation)

• The Faith-Based Encyclopedia
  November 15, 2004, an Arts and Letters Daily selection
• On Getting It
  January 31, 2005
• Are We All Happy Yet?
  February 28, 2005
• Yakkety-Yak (Everybody Talk Back)
  March 21, 2005
• The Paper God
  April 12, 2005
• The Shores of Tripoli
  May 6, 2005
• Intelligent Decline
  May 19, 2005
• We Are Living in a Material World
  June 1, 2005
• The Titillo-Americans
  June 16, 2005
• One Man's "Deadly Weapon"
  June 29, 2005
• A New Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
  July 18, 2005
• Turning "Unknown" into "Unknowable"
  August 10, 2005, an Arts and Letters Daily selection
• What a Piece of [Ongoing] Work is Man!
  September 19, 2005
• What Do You Want to Know?
  September 28, 2005
• Yes, I'm Definitely Saying Something About Your Mother
  October 4, 2005
• The Invention of Design
  October 11, 2005
• The Education of Gesture
  October 25, 2005
• It's Miller Time
  November 11 (Veterans Day), 2005
• Ciao, California; Howdy, Kansas!
  November 30, 2005
• The Faith-Based Encyclopedia Blinks
  December 14, 2005
• The Scribe's Problem Child
  January 3, 2006
• A Congress of Your Peers
  January 11, 2006
• The Curse of Egoism
  January 26, 2006
• What Is a Picture of Muhammad, Anyway?
  February 9, 2006
• Fishing for Liberalism
  February 15, 2006
• Sticks and Summers
  February 23, 2006
• The Nature of Things: War-o-pedia Continues
  March 28, 2006
• Sorrowless Sorries
  April 7, 2006
• Calling a Tail a Leg
  May 1, 2006
• Moussaoui's Fate
  May 5, 2006
• The Deconstruction of Argument
  June 5, 2006
• iConfused
  July 21, 2006
• American Politics: The Greatest Show on Earth
  July 31, 2006
• Another Word War
  August 15, 2006
• Categorical Errors
  August 25, 2006
• "Shouting Hoo, Hoo, Hoo at the Tops of their Tongues"
  September 22, 2006
• Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll!
  October 18, 2006
• Eden Without Us?
  November 3, 2006
• How Likely Does It Have to Be?
  December 15, 2006
• My Thought Experiment
  January 5, 2007

In openDemocracy

• The Real Bias in Wikipedia
  June 7, 2006, an Arts and Letters Daily selection

In The American magazine

• "What's In a Name?" in the July/August 2008 issue, and
  online here.

I also contribute regularly to the Britannica Blog; see my articles here

And, believe it or not, in the movies

• The Truth According to Wikipedia
  a documentary film for Dutch television, first aired April 7, 2008