By • Mar 14,2009

Mormons are not buggers

Orson Scott Card, science fiction writer and practicing Mormon, has a sensible article in the National Review on how Mormons should react to the reaction to the Mormon reaction to...

By • Mar 13,2009

Better

The Leader (Alex) We’re in a new hidey-hole, and as usual we’ve lost half a dozen things we really need: toothpaste, butter, even coffee. And now half asleep, feeling like...

By • Mar 13,2009

David Foster Wallace

I read this harrowing New Yorker piece on the life and death of writer David Foster Wallace with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. The article has...

By • Mar 13,2009

Congrats to Ross

Ross Douthat, as we all know by now, has been chosen to take up residence on the op-ed pages of the New York Times. This is excellent news: Ross is...