Oct 08,2008
You know it's too much when
you see a reference to Omaha and misread it as “Obama.” Has this not been the longest election ever?
Oct 07,2008
Horace Engdahl, meet Hiro Protagonist
I would like to second Dan’s distaste for the blatherings of Horace Engdahl, a name straight out of a Kingsley Amis novel. I would also like to second his appreciation...
Oct 07,2008
Boichek Ah Um
Nat Hentoff has a solid piece here on the Afro-Semitic Experience, a group that draws on black and Jewish musical traditions, playing jazz, klezmer, gospel and Afro-Cuban music. Hentoff recounts...
Oct 06,2008
Things you can't say
Robert McDonald of the Kellogg School at Northwestern (full disclosure: I once worked there) has an interesting take on the bailout: The problem with commenting on the financial rescue plan...
Oct 04,2008
Tradeoffs? What tradeoffs?
Campbell Brown at CNN thinks the candidates need to be more forthcoming about how they’d pare back federal spending, now that we’ve plunked down $850 billion on the bailout. “Cut...