By • Dec 22,2008

Gift ideas for nerds

This Map of the Verse (aka the world of Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity) would surely warm the cockles of your sci-fi geek’s heart.

By • Dec 22,2008

What the World Wants (and What It Will Get)

Change was the touchstone of President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign, and his promise to make a clean break from the Bush administration fueled his success in the Democratic primaries. But if...

By • Dec 22,2008

Detroit: Kind of terrible

Matt Labash, long one of America’s great national treasures, has written a fantastic (and fantastically long) look at Detroit’s collapse in the latest issue of The Weekly Standard. As I...

By • Dec 21,2008

Stick to the film criticism…

In an otherwise smart and entertaining (if overly stylized) post at Pajiba on Will Smith’s latest, “Seven Pounds,” Ranylt Richildis writes: [Will Smith’s character] snoops through Treasury files, scans headlines, and...