A while ago I went back and forth with John Schwenkler on torture. Our positions are pretty close together, but an element of the ‘torture problem’ we seem to be...
Aaron Sorkin’s film The American President tells the tale of the President of the United States, Andrew Shepard, a widower who falls in love with a lobbyist. The fallout from his romantic...
In my review of Kingsley Amis’s Everyday Drinking for the Washington Times, I reference ‘The Careful Man’s Peachy Punch.’ For those intrepid enough to read me both at the Times...
Unaware of my existence and identity as Thomas Frank appears to be, how could he have known, before clicking SEND on his silly piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, that...
So there I was, reading the Wall Street Journal, and what do I see? Thomas Frank attacking AF, the organization that so kindly pays me to write this humble weblog,...
…but only because the media says that it’s over. Here’s the thing about Obama’s much-vaunted majority of the pledged delegates: it means bupkus. There is a certain symbolism, I suppose,...
