I just started reading David Grann's New Yorker piece, which everyone is talking about. I was delaying because I'm an old fogey, who actually enjoys holding print products, like books and magazines. I'm not even that far in and I'm ho...

Paul Krugman unloads: On the issue of health care itself, the inspiring figure progressives thought they had elected comes across, far too often, as a dry technocrat who talks of "bending the curve" but has only recently begun to make the ...

I should have something to say about this. I have no idea why I don't. I guess it's good. Maybe I need to think on it more. 

I don't know if it helps. The idea that "Zionists" are keeping Obama from talking to Wright strikes me as, well, false. I'm willing to bet Valarie Jarrett doesn't want them talking either. I'm willing to bet more that Michel...

My former colleague Tim Padgett has an unfortunate and deeply problematic article on Sotamayor's effect on the relationship between blacks and Latinos, a subject that major media has never gotten a solid handle on, for reasons that are made clear...

...stop trying to be funny. You aren't qualified.

Alyssa on why she bothers to write about culture: To me, culture is where we figure out and express who we are.  Whether it's in selfishness or in search of courage, in communing with the whole or in full expression of your very unique self, how we...

Heh: If she didn't have a good chance you liberals would not keep running stories daily headlines about her not being qualified, nor would your supporters spend most of their time responding or commenting on how she doesn't have a chance.  Funny how...

I'd like to claim that I came to my love of Dogfish through my vast knowledge of brew. In fact, I read this awesome article in the New Yorker by one of my favorite magazine writers, Burkhart Bilger. I happened to be in a bar a few weeks later, and saw...

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