By • Sep 24,2009

Disappearing Colleges?

Ezra links to this Washington Monthly story by Kevin Carey asking if colleges will go the way of the newspaper: StraighterLine is the brainchild of a man named Burck Smith, an...

By • Sep 22,2009

The old media are the new media

Terry Teachout revisits the late 1940s, when television was the new kid on the block and big radio was headed over a cliff like a corporate lemming: Everybody in America...

By • Sep 21,2009

A live boy or a dead girl

Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards famously said “The only way I can lose is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.” Well, it looks...

By • Sep 21,2009

The J Street Davids vs the AIPAC Goliath

That’s the story being sold by last week’s NYT Magazine. It’s the kind of story J Street will probably excerpt heavily in its fundraising materials. But sending out the full...