By • Aug 11,2009

Flying rabbis battle swine flu

A cost effective approach to health care: Dozens of rabbis and Kabbalah mystics armed with ceremonial trumpets took to the skies over Israel on Monday to battle the swine flu...

By • Aug 11,2009

“Taliban Now Winning”

It was certainly quite a jolt to pick up my Wall Street Journal and see this big headline smack in the middle of Page One: Taliban Now Winning. The article...

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...