Great essay from Alyssa Rosenberg on pop culture criticism:
Month: April 2010
While the difference between Comedy Central’s treatment of Muhammad and every other religious figure is certainly striking,...
Here’s a provocative post from Stanley Fish: To anyone who has been following First Amendment jurisprudence in...
I ride the DC Metro to work. Sometimes people sit next to me who smell like pot....
All those mind-boggling financial products that nobody understood were no help to the U.S. economy, and led...
If you like to chat about political philosophy in the abstract, you may want to head over...
Strange Maps posts a picture of what was nearly our 49th state, carved out of the California...
The last thing I want is to give more free publicity to a book that frankly doesn’t...
It’s a bit of a cliche to suggest that, if you want to understand the 60s, the...
While I wait to catch the train out of NYC for the weekend, I thought I’d get...
Faced with rapidly increasing public debt and an World Trade Organization decision that its market-distorting, third world poverty-reinforcing cotton...
German city bankrolls bar for unemployed alcoholics:
After watching his excellent Bloggingheads dialogue, I stumbled across the website of Canadian science fiction author Peter...
I don’t have a lot to say about Comedy Central’s decision to apparently censor the 201st episode...
Janette Sadik-Khan and her posse continue to reclaim Manhattan streets for the people who actually use them....
Not that I am surprised to see editorial garbage floating around over at Investor’s Business Daily (I...
I was a little disappointed to see that the conversation on my ‘folkways’ post went the direction...
Anyone frustrated by our government can at least take comfort in the fact that Silvio Berlusconi isn’t...
For would-be architects: The Washington Post ran an article on my parents’ lovely modernist neighborhood.
I’m sorry, Bryan. You’ve done some great work in the past, but this just hasn’t been your...
