Bob Novak has written a remarkable piece about his brain tumor. I’ve only met Novak a couple times, but he was at the top of his game back in April,...
Acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died 10 years ago today. IMDB tips the hat to him in its daily poll, whose results are kind of embarrassing, but a nice gesture,...
Frank Fukuyama asks all the right questions about our foolish Georgia policy over at The American Interest‘s blog. (Full disclosure: my other job is at AI.) If Cheney and McCain...
I really got a kick out of the New Yorker’s profile of Alec Baldwin. A number of things struck me,* but this sentence has a deeper grain of truth to...
Every presidential election is disappointing in its own way, but 2008 is like being forced to decide which foot to blow off. From the Republicans, we get a foreign policy...
I’m not sure how come it’s not in the FT or WSJ, but if the Russian-language news agency Regnum is to be believed, the Russian Central Bank has decided to...
