Reading this Newsweek piece by Fareed Zakaria brought to mind two points: 1) Zakaria is an interesting bird, belonging to a school of thought that might be termed “declinism, except.”...
Check out this Times piece: A few weeks ago, a check for $491,000 was delivered to a small private middle school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, De La...
Via Andrew comes this short video giving a graphical representation of immigration to the U.S. from 1820-2007. There are all sorts of nits to pick with the data, no doubt,...
Oscar season is upon us, hence the slightly less than routine posting. But I did want to pass these little nuggets from Clint Eastwood in the latest Esquire along: We...
I realize that a lot of folks were quite up in arms over this rather sanctimonious op-ed that appeared last week in the paper of record, in which former terrorist...
Reading this Kissing Suzy Kolber post execrating my hometown of Baltimore, I couldn’t help but be almost honored that someone would put so much time and effort into a city...
