As predicted, The Wackness disappoints. Reihan, on the other hand, doesn’t: Portraying a downbeat sex-obsessed stoner is not the best way to display one’s dazzling range. Famke Janssen was wasted,...
Or doodette. Read Dana Stevens in Slate on The Wackness, a review better than the movie if these are what count for selling points: Luke and his shrink, Dr. Jeffery...
The horrors of politics in Zimbabwe. One of the big downsides of globe-straddling information technology is that terrible things happening anywhere become instant and persistent public knowledge. The number of...
George Packer considers: last year he wrote a much-praised column in Vanity Fair about a soldier who joined the military in part because Hitchens’s writings inspired him to, and who...
Megan makes a characteristically smart comment: Bill Mayer and Clive just had a very interesting exchange on the topic of the American versus the British approach to financial regulation. American...
Stephen Cohen has an excellent, urgent column in the IHT on the topic of McCain and Obama’s totally inadequate and positively harmful Russia policies. I have nothing to add for...
