Salon captures Austen’s enduring appeal:
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I’m a poor substitute for Tyler Cowen, but since Sonny Bunch is soliciting comments on this post,...
Newsday erects a pay wall. 35 people subscribe. Newspaper editors collectively shudder. Total cost of Newsday’s failed...
I know the “teabaggers” are supposed to represent some combination of incipient fascism and no-nothing economic sloganeering,...
Of all the too-close readings of “Avatar’s” stilted politics, I enjoyed David Boaz’s take the most. He...
The Washington Post assembles a list of the most spectacularly wrong predictions from the Davos Economic Forum.
Like every other cynical 20-something, I admit to being temporarily enthralled by NBC’s late night wars. Michael...
A frightening article from Reason on campus free speech restrictions.
Michael Dougherty’s simultaneously funny and pull-out-your-hair frustrating letter to the conservative movement is worth your time.
That’s how much playing time goes into a typical NFL broadcast, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Garry Kasparov looks back at his 1997 loss to an IBM computer and its broader implications for...
At the Corner, Mark Krikorian proposes one possible explanation for Haiti’s woes: My guess is that Haiti’s...
. . . Sixers center Samuel Dalembert on his return to Haiti.
Last year, Ross Douthat wrote a perceptive article on the inevitability of attempts to revive Bush’s flagging...
The top 10 technologies for tyranny. I’m vaguely mortified that my favorite childhood game – Civilization II...
From the putatively respectable Times: “The day I decided to stop being gay,” “What it feels like...
Yes, says David Downes, professor of criminology at the London School of Economics. No, says Heather Mac...
Vanity Fair visits the Creationist Museum. Potshots abound, but it’s still a pretty funny article.
In lieu of writing an actual, honest-to-goodness post, here are a few recommendations from around the web:
Anti-stimulus sentiment ran high in the comments section of my (qualified) defense of the Obama Administration’s economic...
