Jon Last sharply questions the Twitter-euphoria generated by recent events in Tehran. In spite of rose-tinted predictions that historians would celebrate Twitter’s liberation of Iran and the beginning of a...
Last week, Christopher Caldwell reviewed Bradley Graham’s new book about Donald Rumsfeld. As soon as I have time to digest 800 pages of Graham’s prose, I’ll let you know what...
For reasons I can’t quite describe, this story about people cutting back on spending (or to be more precise, what people aren’t cutting back on) infuriated me: “I’m not giving...
If I see one more self-indulgent baby-boomer “Hey, remember when we were awesome” piece about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock I’m blowing my brains out. Dear lord: When will these...
I’ve been wrestling with how to approach this post for two days because it’s a sensitive topic involving the death of a child and I feel uncomfortable demagoging when dead...
The week before last, I pointed out the WaPo’s assessment that Barack Obama “hasn’t included any particularly controversial choices in his first picks” for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In...
