Well, could this possibly get any better? Two politicians who represent varying degrees of reprehensibility going after each other. I suppose on a reprehensibility index of 1 to 10, with 10 being […]
Like others, I’ve got a couple of hobbies. I don’t include reading, since that’s more like breathing, but I admire people who list reading as one of their hobbies. Good for them—maybe […]
Well, it has certainly been a highly entertaining tournament so far. We’re heading into the finals over the next two days, and here’s a list of names that will not be around: […]
Five years after the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression, we are now constantly being assured that a manufacturing revival is occurring in the United States at the moment. Or […]
I’m not a lawyer—there seem to be enough lawyers already. So when the Supreme Court hands down a big ruling, I naturally turn to lawyers to interpret these for me—what sort of […]
So on Saturday we decided to visit the Petrie Museum, one of the few museums in London we hadn’t been to once in the fifteen years we’ve been here. A grievous oversight […]
It somehow slipped by me that there’s a big case coming up in front of the International Court of Justice this week. Actually, I think I knew about it at some point, […]
An interesting and important debate is set to take place in Washington shortly—in fact, it’s already talking place, but few people are paying attention yet. Joe Nocera over at The New York […]
It’s been leading up to this, the past several months, as we have tracked the descent of the twentieth century into its mid-century madness through the course of its music. Alex Ross’s […]
The British Museum’s astonishing exhibit, Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Human Mind, is one of the best shows they’ve had since we’ve been in London. It’s a collection of carvings from […]
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