Feb 12,2006
Music wants to be free
Just like news and opinion is free on the Internet today, so will new music be tomorrow.
Feb 12,2006
Those terrible ‘toons
It’s hard to talk about the ongoing flap over the Danish political cartoons without feeling a sense of irony. Here you have a handful of drawings making the argument (clumsily...
Feb 12,2006
The top ten reasons to cut corporate welfare
The federal budget is too big. It's way too big. George W. Bush has called for total spending this year of $2.47 trillion. Here's why corporate welfare should be the...
Feb 05,2006
Music from the inside out
Music, we often hear, expresses emotion that verbal language cannot. It may be the most mysterious of the arts. “As long as I can remember, music has moved me,” says...
Feb 05,2006
Private or public, pension plans are failing
Delphi auto parts recently filed for bankruptcy because it couldn't keep up with its pension obligations. How long before the same thing happens to America?
Jan 29,2006
Searching for style
Andre 3000 and Fonzworth Bentley, the gradual disappearance of casual Fridays, the spate of new men’s magazines, dandyism.net, a “Seersucker Day” in the U.S. Senate — signs point to a...