This, from the Dish, a poem by Hafiz which I think is quite lovely:
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Lauren Collins’ New Yorker article on Nora Roberts (June 22nd issue, not online yet) was, at first,...
The big headline today coming out of Iran of course is Ayatollah Khamenei’s ultra hardline stance, in...
Via Ta-Nehisi Coates comes this piece by Pat Buchanan that centers around the following allegation: Sotomayor got...
The Return of Marcus Sextus by Pierre-Narcisse Guerin
Douglas Muir has a pretty good breakdown of exactly what makes a regime vulnerable to collapse –...
Dateline: Squamish, British Columbia courtesy CBC: Maureen Lee told CBC News she was turning away to pick...
Well, no, not yet anyways…
I used to believe in humanitarian intervention. I used to truly believe that the right thing for...
My review of Ismail Kadare’s The Siege is now up.
I think the one thing that free-market health care advocates have yet to illustrate is, as Freddie...
Health care reform is capable of whittling out some inefficiencies and could, in the long run, save...
Davey over at Theopolitical has a very sharp post up analyzing the epic (can I call it...
So I wrote this piece last year for Culture11. I wanted to link to it in response...
Reading Reihan’s post on the costs of health care reform today gave me what has become a...
A reader writes Andrew: In their desire for Ahmadinejad to succeed, today’s neocons are in complete opposition...
I wish that I had something worthwhile to say about Ta-Nahisi Coates’ reaction to completing McPherson’s “Battle...
I wondered about this the other day. While I commend Obama’s restraint and am glad that he...
I suppose the difference for me between the adopting of these two technologies – Twitter and Kindle...
Conor revisits the talk-radio conundrum at his new Atlantic digs. I was thinking about this the other...
