Here’s some free advice to any males out there: if the subject of Sarah Palin comes up, and there’s a female in the vicinity, do try to look suitably outraged....
Over in (non-Soviet) Russia, trading was suspended yesterday after markets tumbled 17%. Some Russian reportedly said: “It is a situation of total mistrust. The liquidity crisis is being caused by...
This is approximately the only time I’ll be posting anything on macroeconomics, because frankly I’d almost rather be writing about third-wave feminism or something. But yesterday’s news that the Federal...
Andrew J. Bacevich has a characteristically smart piece in the new Atlantic Monthly on the largely internal debate over military tactics fought between what he terms the Crusaders and the...
Elegy is Old School for grown-ups. Based on The Dying Animal, Philip Roth’s 2001 novella about a fictional Columbia University literature professor and his sexual liaisons with a recent student,...
I was deeply shocked and saddened to read that writer David Foster Wallace took his own life this past weekend. The death of such a talent is always a loss,...