Tyson Homosexual, champion sprinter
The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow website… replaces the word “gay” in [Associated...
Jun 30th
Brian Appleyard's least favorite book
The Awkward Age by Henry James This late (1899) book marks the beginning of the end for James, and...
Jun 30th
Turns out that the story Gene Weingarten wrote last year...
Jun 30th
European men and the baby bust
A study released in February of this year by Letizia Mencarini, the demographer from the University...
Jun 28th
“Pixar may have earned awards and laurels as the pioneers of...”
— James Rocchi
— James Rocchi
Jun 28th
I am grateful to live in the Age of Pixar. I really am.
Jun 28th
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Michael Kenna, via Monoscope
Jun 26th
Taipei 101 includes a 728-ton sphere locked in a net of...
Jun 26th
George Orwell explains how to make a nice cup...
Jun 26th
“No benign deity plucks television news-show hosts from their...”
— Hitchens on Tim...
— Hitchens on Tim...
Jun 23rd
world unlikely to end immediately
Physicists around the world are waiting with excitement as the final preparations for CERN’s...
Jun 23rd
“I don’t have pet peeves. I have deep, psychotic...”
— George Carlin
— George Carlin
Jun 23rd
R.I.P.
Jun 23rd
Jun 21st
Jed Perl: a postcard from somewhere
Shortly after returning to New York, I went down to Philadelphia to visit the Barnes Foundation, a...
Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
new sculpture at Pixar, via Scott Stevenson
Jun 20th
“There are good movies. There are bad movies. There are...”
— Dana Stevens on The Love Guru
— Dana Stevens on The Love Guru
Jun 20th
Please don't forget my 'other' new book
Jun 19th
morning in the Arboretum
Jun 18th
Edge-notched cards were invented in 1896. These are index...
Jun 17th
the rage of stickers
Bumper stickers such as “Make Love, Not War” and “More Trees, Less Bush” speak volumes about a...
Jun 17th
via Jon Hicks
Jun 16th
feelin' bad
The case that things are basically pretty good? Unemployment is 5.5%, low by historical standards;...
Jun 14th
the “El Greco” version of me, according to the...
Jun 12th
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Benjamin Harrison
Jun 11th
Nixon
Jun 11th
Harding
Jun 11th
Sina Najafi on presidential doodles
The doodles are very different from president to president. Reagan, for example, who had dreams of...
Jun 11th
conflicts of interest
For a medical researcher, the failure to report income from drug companies is a serious ethical...
Jun 11th
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from Cabinet magazine
Jun 10th
from Brian Williams's Commencement...
I come here today with a request for the Class of ‘08: We need you to fix the country —...
Jun 10th
from J. K. Rowling's Commencement...
Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind...
Jun 9th
The feminist gender rift
I recently got tipsy with a group of ferociously successful second-wave lawyers, each of whom...
Jun 7th
Léon Krier's Poundbury
Krier conceived the town, still being built, as a single and continuous public space, organized...
Jun 7th
“Humanity lives by trial and error, sometimes committing...”
— Léon Krier
— Léon Krier
Jun 7th
The lost rivers of London, some of which (according to Peter...
Jun 6th
healing
How did we come to pray so fervently for recovery from illness? As Heather Curtis notes at the...
Jun 6th
the weakness of religion
Jun 6th
Peggy Noonan on Obama
A friend sent, by instant message, the AP flash that ran at 16:56 ET on 06-03-2008. There it was...
Jun 6th
the Church of England establishes its...
A meeting of the Church’s “parliament” was due to discuss whether clergy should be...
Jun 4th
sorry, you had your chance
If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for...
Jun 4th
Anthony Lane on "Sex and the City"
Is this really where we have ended up—with this superannuated fantasy posing as a slice of modern...
Jun 3rd
Jun 3rd
Johann Hari on Mark Steyn
Is there anything easier than defending the right to free speech for people you agree with? I love...
Jun 3rd
Stourhead in Wiltshire: the most beautiful landscape garden...
Jun 2nd
Milton in the grave
Milton died shortly after completing his revision of “Paradise Lost,” in 1674, and was buried in the...
Jun 1st