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.