Oh, I’m just an idiot!

By Aug 11,2009

Oh, I’m just an idiot!

(Yes, I expect to see that hed quoted out of context at some point in the future.) Over at Reason, the always-sensible Michael Moynihan points to Shepard Fairey’s reaction to...

By Aug 11,2009

Hermits and Harlots

“Women and fiction,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929, “remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.” Eighty years later, women and fiction no longer seem so problematic. Indeed, they...

By Aug 11,2009

At the Gates of the Fourth Estate

On a pleasant evening in March, dozens of tanned, well-coiffed conservatives mingled outdoors at a posh Beverly Hills hotel. The open bar served organic beer, top shelf cocktails, and mineral...

By Aug 11,2009

Learning for a Living

Frankford High School is in a rough neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. Forty percent of its students drop out before making it to their senior year. Its test scores are low,...

By Aug 11,2009

Whither Realism?

Is compromise possible between realists and neoconservatives? Are the ideas that animate realism and neoconservatism fundamentally incompatible? A look at the intellectual foundations of our nation's foreign policy.