Generalfun with presidentsJoe Queenan has a piece in the journal about how he’s glad Hillary won’t be president, because she’s no fun. Not sure about the...
Generalgangs of sao paoloMaking the rounds is this cool little piece from Foreign Policy magazine, listing the world’s most dangerous gangs. Forget about...
GeneralThe decline of This MagazineLetters to the Editor reacting to my piece on declinism , originally published in THIS, later published in the OC and the National...
Generallede of the day......prize goes to John Pareles of the Times: "There is a new yardstick for the size of the universe. It is approximately equal to...
Generalwho’s your daddy?Troll through the History section of an American bookstore like Borders and you’ll be struck by the interest -- nay, obsession --...
GeneralName Coyne’s BlogYou have to admit, there are some pretty snappily-named blogs here at Blog Central. The too-good-to-be-true Inkless Wells, the...
Generalal-kanadi to al-jazeeraA month or so after steadfastly denying it to a reporter at the Citizen, Tony Burman is off to al-Jazeera English as managing...
Generaltibetology/IyerologyI’m interviewing Pico Iyer tomorrow about his new book on the Dalai Lama. One problem: I basically know squat about...
Generalethics commish: making things worse since 2004William Kaplan has a good op-ed in today’s Globe, in which he questions ethics comissioner Mary Dawson’s ruling that Robert...