GeneralSometimes a primate is just a primate, ReverendThe bigger race issue in the U.S. is a cult of black authenticity familiar from hip hop
GeneralThe Uncomplained Life is Not Worth LivingComplaining is one life’s great pleasures. The best complainers (e.g. Mordecai Richler, Noel Gallagher) are artists of the...
GeneralThe Thriving American MuslimNew data shows that Muslims in the U.S. are pretty well assimilated. Here’s a theory or two on how to explain it.
GeneralRating the PhilosophersA philosophy prof I had once was famous for dismissing the biggest names in the biz as idiots. Wittgenstein? "Master of the...
GeneralHigh Praise from High PlacesWhile everyone is performing Kremlinology on Harper’s CNN interview, the much more interesting piece on Harper in the WSJ goes...
GeneralUp for airGreetings, PotterGoldsters: Some of you might have noticed that my blogging has been exceedingly light over the past few...
GeneralCountercyclical CreativesVia MR comes this little nugget : This doesn’t surprise me. I’ll bet it is because Washington has far more creative class workers...
GeneralExecutive Chernin at NewscorpPeter Chernin, President and COO of Newscorp, has split. The NYTimes has a piece about Murdoch and how his romantic love of print...
GeneralWhen Lily did BritneyHere’s the song you’re going to be playing all day tomorrow, from the stupidly addictive hypemachine .
GeneralYour Sunday DeclinismIn which David Suzuki wonders whether the world today is better than it was in 1936. li nk