By Martin Bosworth For those who have interest, I’ve posted my thoughts on the hard truth that we have failed in Iraq over at my LJ. It’s not pretty, but nothing dealing […]
We broke Iraq and can’t pay for it
Talking with Persia, spreading out the carpet
By Robert Silvey Shortly after 470 BCE, following years of triumph as the leader of wartime Athens, Themistocles was accused of treachery against the city. He escaped the death sentence and traveled […]
The consumer culture of self-containment
By Martin Bosworth Matt Zoller Seitz yesterday linked to Boston University professor Ray Carney’s voluminous film and media Web site, who in turn had posted an excerpted essay from Mark Edmundson’s “Why […]
When equality becomes unfair: South Africa’s two economies
South Africa is a microcosm for all the world’s greatest unresolved itches. Here we have fair-skinned folk living in shiny new cities with first-rate infrastructure and access to all the best that […]
That Tinky Winky is at it again…
From the speaking ill of the dead dept.: The child rights ombudsman for Poland is currently investigating Tinky Winky. Ewa Sowinska is out to discover whether the big purple purse carrying Teletubby […]
A call for universal civil service
A former Secretary of Defense and Representative, Melvvin R. Laird, is calling for universal civil service for all youths instead of a universal draft. He points out that the military doesn’t need […]
Sometimes I weep for my journalist friends: or Paris Hilton stoops to conquer
This just in – on this Memorial Day weekend, when my colleagues at Scholars and Rogues are writing thoughtful analyses and contemplations of matters like the carnage in Iraq, immigration reform and […]
Remembering
By Robert Silvey On Memorial Day, we remember those who perished in war. All the victims—the guilty and the innocent, the powerful and the downtrodden, the soldiers and the civilians. Especially, this […]
Sing along with Hillary
A headline in my hometown newspaper today did what it should do: make me stop to read the story. The headline: “Clinton asks voters to choose the theme song for her campaign.†[…]
So, how serious is the new NFL commish?
If you follow the NFL at all you know that the league has a new commissioner, Roger Goodell, and that he’s apparently made it his mission to clean up the league’s little […]
