By • Feb 01,2010

Avatar and the noble savage

Remember that guy who did the 70 minute Phantom Menace review that set the ‘sphere abuzz a month or two ago? Well, he’s back with a (far shorter) review of...

By • Feb 01,2010

In praise of Art Linson

In preparation for a freelance piece I’m rereading What Just Happened, Art Linson’s book on what, exactly, it means to be a “producer.” You know, that credit that you sometimes...

By • Feb 01,2010

Game changed or rules broken?

Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, stole the spotlight by informing us that Harry Reid thought of Barack Obama as a “light-skinned”, um, “Negro”. That quote was quite...

By • Feb 01,2010

Poor Mr. Qaddafi

Dan Drezner notes that Libya’s weirdo-in-chief is not happy about being deposed as head of the African Union. I just have to ask, what kind of continent chooses Muammar Qaddafi...

By • Jan 31,2010

Tea (Parties) and Sympathy

In the current issue of the New Yorker, my old classmate Ben McGrath goes inside the Tea Party movement. Ben is determined not to write-off the Tea Partiers as right-wing...