Lev Grossman’s The Magicians posed the question “What if your childhood fantasy turned out to be real?”...
Year: 2011
If you have a spare hour I strongly recommend listening to the latest episode of Econtalk. Russ...
I’m not feeling super-motivated to write about politics these days – the two debates and the job...
Here’s a healthy man of thirty. He’s an architect. He’s never worked for Microsoft. He decides not...
~by Aaron There is an ongoing war in Michigan on the status of affirmative action in higher...
At FPR, Gregory Butler has written a nice discussion of Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising. This album has...
But Aaron Carroll did. He writes: Let’s start here with the moment I screamed at the TV....
I know everyone’s probably burned out on 9/11, but I’m curious to know how ya’ll would answer...
Last week following the Republican debate, Erik and many others decried the way Perry’s supporters yeehaw-ed Texas...
Umair Haque has an interesting post up at the Harvard Business Review asking whether Marx was in...
In July of 2001, I was in New York working on decommissioning a regional office. Shutting down...
Elvis Perkins (again). This time While You Were Sleeping off of Ash Wednesday.
The English word “republic” is taken from the Latin phrase “res publica,” a concept which embraced the...
My recollections of what I was doing on 9/11 are the recollections of someone in Colorado who was...
I didn’t find out about 9/11 until many hours after it happened. The first plane struck just...
In the interest of brevity—and in an attempt to avoid undue solipsism—I’ll keep my introductory post short....
Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, closes with a flip-book sequence of one...
I’m not entirely sure that there is anything too significant to be gleaned from this video presentation...
In the comments to my recent piece on the new babysitter legislation on its way to becoming...
The funny thing, in retrospect, was that I had actually chosen to listen to news radio before...
