Author: Daniel Kennelly
By • Oct 08,2008

Iceland's meltdown

Take heart, Icelanders. Your savings may be vanishing like your glaciers, and you may soon be in hock to Russia for nearly half your GDP, but you have one of...

By • Oct 07,2008

We didn't want that Nobel anyway

I share Adam Kirsch’s frustration and pique regarding the statements by the Nobel academy’s permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, that Americans haven’t gotten the Nobel recently because “[t]he U.S. is too...

By • Oct 06,2008

Hail Mary McCain

In many ways, the McCain campaign has been on the ropes since last summer. He’s thrown a number of Hail Mary passes since then (backing the surge, Sarah Palin, “suspending”...

By • Oct 06,2008

Myanmar's lost year

Chinese colonialism in Burma? Daniel Pepper on the anniversary of the revolt: Democracy advocates in exile hold out hope that China, which is Myanmar’s largest trading partner and its ally...

By • Oct 06,2008

Narrow loins?

Alexander Waugh, grandson to the author, has a piece up talking about the sex scene in the various adaptations of Brideshead Revisited, including a few choice quotes about what his...