Society
Is that any way to talk about China’s athletes?
It’s too easy to substitute the mythic regime, for the real people who represent it
The new Outlook’s best feature: an empty inbox
Who can resist the lure of a new email address?
David Newland
General
General
Quebec takes the bronze
Surely Pauline Marois could make a better case for nationhood than medal results
Culture
Go easy on the gesamtkunstwerk
Trust the Germans to have precisely the word for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Society
Fixing the Olympics, reality-show style
More guts. More glory. More gore. More nudity. What’s not to like?
Society
An Olympic identity crisis
What we crave is not an amateur athletics event. What we crave is a reality show
General
How I tried (and failed) to ignore the Super Bowl
Sadly, one of our last remaining communal experiences is also a bore
Culture
The Costa Concordia shipwreck as an Italian opera
In the end, it was the musician–not the captain–who went down with the ship
Culture
Why Justin Bieber will never be prime minister
For better or worse, our electoral system weeds out the pop stars