It looks like a quiet day today on Crooked Timber. But I’ve noticed a couple interesting links elsewhere. Tyler Cowen over at the Volokhs points to a new article in Nature about the origins of Indo-European languages (Anatolia is where they come from according to this study). And Brian Leiter finds something to like about Stanley Fish who has a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about right-wing threats to academia (some of which sound not dissimilar to New Labour threats over here in the UK).