By • Oct 07,2008

The Base Base

I’ve always found it apt when the everyman supporters of a political movement are called “the base”. As a coastal elitist snob, I often heap scorn on the base elements...

By • Oct 07,2008

We didn't want that Nobel anyway

I share Adam Kirsch’s frustration and pique regarding the statements by the Nobel academy’s permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, that Americans haven’t gotten the Nobel recently because “[t]he U.S. is too...

By • Oct 07,2008

Irrelevance

I don’t chime in too much when it comes to domestic politics and policy because I’m largely out of my depth. I’m a foreign policy guy by inclination, and I...

By • Oct 07,2008

Creating The Kidney Market

As early as this week, 100,000 Americans will be waiting for donor organs they may never receive. On Monday, the United Network for Organ Sharing reported that the number of...

By • Oct 07,2008

Boichek Ah Um

Nat Hentoff has a solid piece here on the Afro-Semitic Experience, a group that draws on black and Jewish musical traditions, playing jazz, klezmer, gospel and Afro-Cuban music. Hentoff recounts...