By • Jul 02,2008

Pay Up, America

The national debt is approaching $10 trillion, Americans are spending more than they save, and our foreign trade deficit is ever rising. The liabilities of Social Security and Medicare will...

By • Jul 02,2008

Chinese Democracy: Our Gitmo Rulebook

Well this is embarrassing: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques”...

By • Jul 02,2008

Two Anti-Stupid Strategies: Foiled?

Ross asks if the iPhone is making us stupid. [Walter] Mossberg delivered this assessment [at the Aspen Ideas Festival] with a strong note of techno-pessimism woven in: A lot of...

By • Jul 01,2008

What's the point?

An odd comment at /Film: I came across this quote from George Lucas in The New York Times: “I mean, why do we have to make another Indiana Jones? There...

By • Jul 01,2008

The Real Jerry Falwell

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By • Jul 01,2008

Shock the Monkey, Go to Jail

At Slate, Bill Saletan takes a crack at ape rights in Spain. I must admit, I have zero problem with extending legal protections to animal species on the basis of...