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...

By • Dec 20,2008

Israel rehashes bad times, Iran wins

The Israelis are launching their third straight day of air strikes into Gaza, dealing themselves what will ultimately be their second self-imposed military defeat in three years. At times like...