Thinking about the reaction to Conor Friedersdorf’s original article on Sarah Palin, fealty to the Republican party is essentially a kind of nationalism. Which means it’s Orwell time: As nearly...
Last week, while I was riding the train to school, a man entered the carriage and began to address its passengers in a loud voice. He was about mid-thirties, I’d...
As early as this week, 100,000 Americans will be waiting for donor organs they may never receive. On Monday, the United Network for Organ Sharing reported that the number of...
Although written a few weeks ago, this USA Today article just came to my attention in a National Governors Association newsletter. Hooray for movie locations outside Hollywood According to the...
Our generation is probably the worst since the Protestant Reformation. It’s barbaric. But a barbarism even worse than the old-fashioned, straight-forward kind. Now barbarism is cloaked with all sorts of...