The Internet Place to See and Be Seen Today Is Crooked Timber
Henry Farrell has started a discussion of "Robust Action in the Topkapi Palace" over at Crooked Timber. He is the Beau Nash of the intellectuals today, and Crooked Timber is the Augustan-age Bath. So polish your shoes, put on your corset, hitch up your four to your coach, and hie thee over for the nest comment thread I have seen in a long long time.