As predicted, The Wackness disappoints. Reihan, on the other hand, doesn’t: Portraying a downbeat sex-obsessed stoner is not the best way to display one’s dazzling range. Famke Janssen was wasted,...
Or doodette. Read Dana Stevens in Slate on The Wackness, a review better than the movie if these are what count for selling points: Luke and his shrink, Dr. Jeffery...
The horrors of politics in Zimbabwe. One of the big downsides of globe-straddling information technology is that terrible things happening anywhere become instant and persistent public knowledge. The number of...
George Packer considers: last year he wrote a much-praised column in Vanity Fair about a soldier who joined the military in part because Hitchens’s writings inspired him to, and who...
Megan makes a characteristically smart comment: Bill Mayer and Clive just had a very interesting exchange on the topic of the American versus the British approach to financial regulation. American...
Not too much to say today…have a happy (and safe) Fourth of July. I’ll be enjoying it in the most American way possible…watching Maury Povich tell promiscuous women who their...
