By • Oct 06,2008

Narrow loins?

Alexander Waugh, grandson to the author, has a piece up talking about the sex scene in the various adaptations of Brideshead Revisited, including a few choice quotes about what his...

By • Oct 06,2008

One and Done

John McCain is on the ropes. He needs another “game changer” to win the election—something as bold and unexpected as the Sarah Palin pick. Here it is.

By • Oct 04,2008

Tradeoffs? What tradeoffs?

Campbell Brown at CNN thinks the candidates need to be more forthcoming about how they’d pare back federal spending, now that we’ve plunked down $850 billion on the bailout. “Cut...

By • Oct 03,2008

Throwing in the Towel?

Is Charles Krauthammer calling it for Obama? Sure sounds like it: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a “second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”...