Since SEK brought it up... Since what I have to say is predominantly negative, I should say that Freedom is not without its pleasures and accomplishments. Ruth Franklin's bottom line, I think, is essentially correct: The commotion surrounding the publication of this pseudo-masterpiece reminds me...
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Glenn Greenwald's observations about how, in the context of the Wikileaks story, the usual symbiotic relationship between our government and Big Media is moving toward something like organic union reminded.
I read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom because everybody else did and now distinctly wish I hadn't. It's a long book that's as artfully structured as it is poorly executed, which is the.
I'm glad Obama did this. I think that the following points should be obvious, although there seems to be substantial disagreement about them: Convicted persons who have paid their debt to society have the right to earn a living. You don't have to root for...
Been off grid for holidays (arguing with brothers among other things about whether eight-year-old boys should be allowed to have hurt feelings when their sisters talk smack to them or.
Indeed. Although if desperation can provide an incentive for Levine Lieberman to shepherd major civil rights legislation through the Senate and otherwise actually start acting like a blue-state Democrat, desperation.
Um, not really so much: Libertarianism gets marginalized in American politics because it doesn’t fit into the two-party paradigm. Well, that's one version of the underlying cause and effect. A rather more accurate one is hinted at earlier in the piece, albeit embedded in some...
Fortunately and predictably, my strategy of spending Christmas break in Western Canada to escape bad weather has been effective! Plus, I saw local celebrity Theoren Fleury coming out of Costco...
Pretty much what Emily Nussbaum said.
My parents purchased a new computer, completely devoid of cookies, and I migrated their bookmarks. My father, with whom I regularly and vehemently disagree, left Lady Ann's page open about twenty minutes ago and the default advertisement is truly stupendous: (more…)
"Mom, would our President ever send Santa to fight in a war?"
Like Matt, I think Cotes's point here is very important: I guess I can agree that merely displaying the flag of a white supremacist Army, praising a group which opposed.