The Strawman

For Music , the twenty-first century began in 1999. Jordan Knight, one of the spry, ingratiating kids from the by then odious New Kids on t...

One summer weekend in the not too distant past, my girlfriend at the time was traveling down from Ottawa to visit me in Waterloo, Ontario, ...

Embedded in last night’s season finale of Mad Man are two parallel solutions, one commercial, and the other artistic. Much has been made ab...

Slate has broken my heart. They’ve decided to discontinue the “ In Other Magazines ” column.When the week came to a close “In Other Magazin...

I The “Free Market” isn’t really real. It never was. Even venerable classically liberal economists like David Ricardo and Adam Smith unders...

Thomas Homer-Dixon's 2006 book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization was a sobering diagnosis of ...

IT’S DIFFICULT to quantify exactly how devastating a loss for the Democrats in the November presidential elections would be for me. As a Ca...