BooksWhen ‘free’ becomes really expensiveIn the age of digital culture, it is not just access to art that has been democratized, but its production as well.
GeneralThe meaning of PalinDahlia Lithwick writes the best account I’ve read yet of what Sarah Palin is all about. I especially like this fragment: "...while...
General"There was nothing strange about your daddy"I kinda lost it when Michael Jackson’s daughter took to the mic to tell her father she loved him. This was dynamite:
GeneralStill talking about the MadnessMy review of Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis is in the current issue of the LRC, on newstands everywhere. Christopher Moore has...
GeneralTry this at homeYouTube has launched a training hub for journalists who want to learn from the best in the business. It features short video...
GeneralPeak Thinking RevisitedMy column for the magazine last week is finally online -- it’s a critical look at the current craze for "peak" thinking, not just...
BooksPeak water, peak fish and the end of everything‘Peakonomics’ forgets there is such a thing as innovation. The Stone Age didn’t end because they reached ‘peak rocks.’
GeneralUpon my arrival at the gates of hell...Red Devil: Ah, Mr. Potter, so good to see you at last. Andrew Potter: Hey, whoa. Hell? What did I do to end up here? RD: Let’s see...
GeneralSound and Vision1. I’ve been listening to Dave Bidini’s new album The Land is Wild, from his new band called, er, Bidiniband. The songs revolve...