Peter Beinart, he of the heavy-duty Time topic of Patriotism With America At A (Nother) Crossroads, wants to be an equal-opportunity chastiser. What could be more bipartisan and transcendent? But...
Rod Dreher will just lurv this one. In a general sign of the horribleness of Time magazine and the culture at large, the hot new story is the mainstreaming of...
Amateurism is not ignorance. And politics is not life. But consider Matt Yglesias: I’m a very “bad” tourist in terms of looking things up in advance and planning. But I...
I have a lot of problems with statistical analysis. Most of my complaints go straight to the heart of the use of large-n studies of groups — irritating quant people,...
So I’ve just returned from Providence, RI, where an IHS conference on social change was held at Brown University. Stars of the show included the ever-lucid Will Wilkinson (recently in...
It used to be said that if The Cure made a happy album something had truly gone wrong in the world. It must now be said that if Tom Friedman...
