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...

By • Oct 07,2008

But… They're Movie Stars!

Although written a few weeks ago, this USA Today article just came to my attention in a National Governors Association newsletter. Hooray for movie locations outside Hollywood According to the...

By • Oct 06,2008

Defining words for our times

Our generation is probably the worst since the Protestant Reformation. It’s barbaric. But a barbarism even worse than the old-fashioned, straight-forward kind. Now barbarism is cloaked with all sorts of...