RIP Nick Ashford .

I recently finished reading an intriguing article summing up social science research on political ideology. The direct link is here , but ...

The American national media's main failing during the recent debt ceiling hostage situation was its frequent refusal to describe it accu...

A fantastic cover of a classic. Via via .

Scott Horton recently interviewed Harold Bloom, who has a new book out. Last year, Horton posted a video of Bloom reading Wallace Stevens...

David Gregory is mostly awful , but he's correct here to press Michelle Bachmann on her anti-gay views: Here's the transcrip...

Over at Hullabaloo, David Atkins (thereisnospoon) has an excellent short post: Has anyone in the media considered asking the Republican ...

The debt ceiling hostage situation was pretty depressing, and predictably, Republicans are crowing about taking hostages again in the future...

I like this cover better than the MGMT original.

As of yesterday, this blog turns six. I've had much less time to write since last year, alas, but I hope that will change in the next f...