Everyone is outraged that North Carolina denied marriage equality last night. And you should be. However, what I thought was most important last night was that 39% of North Carolina voters support marriage between gay people. And not just hot lesbians either, but men with...
Author: Erik Loomis
Those who claim that we need a man like Lyndon Johnson today; that a new LBJ could handle the Senate through his own personality and politicking forget that the Republican.
Geoffrey O'Brien has a great essay on silent films in the New York Review of Books. A very small selection: The seduction of silent cinema is the seduction of a.
Lisa Curtis has a provocative essay proclaiming that while she holds environmental values, she is very much not an environmentalist. Why? Because the environmental movement is dying and misguided and irrelevant for the concerns of young people with a social conscience. The environmentalism of my...
Jonathan Tobin begins the deification of martyr Naomi Schaefer Riley. In saying this, Riley was blunt but transgressed no rules of journalism other than the need not to offend powerful.
I'm really impressed with the Heartland Institute's aggressive crash and burn policy. Six months ago, virtually no one had heard of this libertarian business front group. Then Peter Gleick got.
Most of us would probably agree that we really screwed up our cities in the 1950s and 1960s. Between uncontrolled suburbanization, urban renewal, the destruction of public transportation, white flight, etc., the city became almost nightmarish by the 1980s. Maybe longtime residents and writers like...
We don't discuss specific activist campaigns much here and I need to do a better job of it. I'm particularly interested in smaller movements that are doing amazing work to.
It's not like I think Tom Brokaw is all that great (starting with his pushing of the extremely annoying and completely ahistorical "greatest generation" construction), but he's sure right about.
A couple of interesting Grist pieces on food, both worth commenting so I'll just combine them. First, as we decimate the world's large fish stocks in order to satisfy our unquenchable desire for fish, we often hear that eating smaller fish is an answer. But...
How many of you were aware we were deep in a covert war in Honduras? I guess now we see a little more why Obama was pretty quiet about the.
Peter J. Hatch, the Director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello has written a fascinating new book entitled “A Rich Spot of Earth”: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. A.