Oct 07,2008
The Base Base
I’ve always found it apt when the everyman supporters of a political movement are called “the base”. As a coastal elitist snob, I often heap scorn on the base elements...
Oct 07,2008
We didn't want that Nobel anyway
I share Adam Kirsch’s frustration and pique regarding the statements by the Nobel academy’s permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, that Americans haven’t gotten the Nobel recently because “[t]he U.S. is too...
Oct 07,2008
Horace Engdahl, meet Hiro Protagonist
I would like to second Dan’s distaste for the blatherings of Horace Engdahl, a name straight out of a Kingsley Amis novel. I would also like to second his appreciation...
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...
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...