Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down is an enlightening and entertaining book about why we can’t always win and why that’s…
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers DrinkBy Olivia Laing(Picador, 340 pages. £20) Here, on the fecund subject of drink, are two…
Let’s be honest: the images that came out of Sochi yesterday were sickening. Thugs in uniforms beating young women with…
I’m not really up to the task of dissecting Jeff’s 1,200-word post about me. His grasp of English syntax is shaky;…
They ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god…hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and…
Jeff Lord has unleashed his usual barrage of single-sentence (and sometimes single-fragment) paragraphs on Commentary‘s Pete Wehner. Jeff heavy-handedly suggests that Wehner…
Lately the so-called “Dark Enlightenment” has begun to receive some attention from writers outside the Blogspot crypts and Tumblr grottos…
Why is no one writing about Girls, which returned to HBO on Sunday night? During its first two seasons everyone seemed…
Rod Dreher at the American Conservative linked to this quiz the other day, which purports to predict one’s politics on the…
Perhaps it had to be this way. Only Nixon could go to China, and only Rodman could go to North…
