It's an extremely good week around here for nonacademic nonfiction, by friends and by famous strangers:

Douglas's five-minute explication of Kant with reference to Wolverine and Reed Richards, available here as embedded video, isn't just a very funny, and very useful, explication of Kant: it's also a good quick show of how to give an effective lecture in the arts and humanities, how to know your audience, and how to use images well.

Sara's book about Riot Grrrl isn't out yet, but the site that...