Did I Kill Gawker?
Of course, it wasn’t a Gawker story. We’d rushed the article to publication in part because Nick was having a party at his apartment that evening and I felt like it would be nice...
Monthly Archive: August 2016
Jennifer Rubin: You’d want to live in the Breitbart world, too
Things have gotten so bad in the real world that Trump was compelled to read a statement of “regret” from a teleprompter Thursday night for unspecified things he has said and “personal pain” to...
Switching Horses Midstream
An assessment of executive managerial skills put on display for the nation to see.
Movie Review: Jack Strong
A part biopic, part spy thriller, and mostly true story from Poland during the Bad Old Days of the Cold War.
Weekend!
I am still mad about the lyric “I said ‘yep!’ What a concept! I could use a little fuel myself and we could all use a little chaaaaange.”
Lyman Stone: In Defense Of Downward Sloping Urban Housing Demand Curves
To start with, Nick acknowledges that cities may arise as a result of some kind of random variation, or indeed as a negative feature. Cities may exist because there are geographic chokepoints, or places...
Bernie Sanders Leaves the Democratic Party
The nomination was barely sealed up at the Democratic National Convention before Bernie Sanders, who had campaigned against Hillary Clinton for the party’s nod, went back to being an Independent. Sanders, who considers himself, officially,...
Morning Ed: Society {2016.08.17.W}
Tom Clancy, Hayao Miyazaki, and teams should never call themselves the Hawks.
What the Trump/Khan Debate Really Says About America
The Trump/Khan debate has more or less come to its unresolved conclusion. Now it’s time to reflect on what we can learn from it.
The River is a Strong Brown God
The parishes around Baton Rouge are underwater from a thousand-year rain and the flooding that’s followed.
(Trump) Sign of the Times
Maud Kelly on parenting, politics, and the struggle to be neighborly in hostile territory.
Mother of 6-year-old with microcephaly: “It gets better”
Like most six-year-olds, Edmund Picciuto loves singing, toys and, of course, his mother. But unlike most of his peers, Edmund has microcephaly, the result of a genetic disorder his mom Elizabeth Picciuto didn’t know...
