By • Nov 27,2006

From 9/11 to 11/7

After an afternoon making calls from the Dubliner and an all-nighter fueled by a week’s worth of Irish whiskey, I put the final edits on the post-election edition of the...

By • Nov 27,2006

Allen agonistes

Virginia Senator George Allen’s loss earlier this month to Jim Webb was more than just a win for the Democratic Party, which needed Allen’s seat to gain a majority in...

By • Nov 20,2006

Milton Friedman, conservative

To deal with man's flaws, a conservative trusts in tradition and community. He also tries to guard against the concentration of power. Milton Friedman warned constantly about the concentration of...

By • Nov 20,2006

The LSE’s bell curve

From Charles Murray's Bell Curve to Satoshi Kanazawa's new paper on IQ's, each and every time, a new idea or provocative opinion has produced a reaction among cultural elites that...

By • Nov 13,2006

Cultural learnings from Borat

There are so many targets for ridicule in “Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” but what is most interesting about the movie is not...

By • Nov 06,2006

F springs eternal

It’s a sure sign that your adolescence is irretrievably behind you when you no longer take any particular joy in using the word “fuck.” In that fleeting moment around age...