Ralph Fiennes asks, “Is Shakespeare relevant,” in an age of tweets and texts. In response to Fiennes-as-Luddite,...
Month: November 2011
The Second Apocalypse is a projected nine-book series comprised of three separate-but-connected trilogies by R. Scott Bakker....
Last week we did a kind of census to see where we all came from, in terms...
Did anyone know that Gingrich and Cain were having a mano y mano debate last night? I...
Daniel Mendelsohn offers commentary on the problems and practice of translation not unrelated to the discussion held...
[bumped to the top and the front page for more visibility – Erik] Two recent stories got...
Matt Yglesias has a smart post up on Frederic Bastiat’s “What is Seen and What is Not...
I thought we needed an open thread. But I wanted it to be *FUNKY*. If you have...
As a stand up comedian, Steve Martin had a bit in which he would muse about what...
In an exchange Tuesday up on the main page, wardsmith asked me if I thought voters had...
~by Jeremie Finck (more commonly known as North) How do you start a guest post? Damned if...
Will Wilkinson makes an important observation about the affinity between libertarians and conservatives. At the heart of...
I hadn’t actually considered compiling data, but Pat’s magnificent work recently has kind of shamed me into...
Robert Neuwirth in Foreign Policy, writing about “System D” — the unlicensed, unregulated, off-the-books world economy: System...
I’m getting ready to throw the End-Of-Prohibition Party. So of course I’m thinking of old standards. Bear...
Fellow Gentleman Tom Van Dyke recently wrote the following: For if I were an atheist member of...
Greg asks, “How many people get here from Milf-o-rama.com?” (cheekily) Our referrers for the last week:
I thought we’d take Patrick’s post below and give it a much more straightforward twist. Feel free...
