May 17, 2013
The Tea Party Canadian
Even before the scandal involving a video of his allegedly smoking crack, Toronto's mayor was the most American-style politician in Canada
The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece
How did a middling middle-aged novelist grow to write the English epic of colonial India?
The IRS Scandal Has Nothing to Do With Obamacare
But that's not stopping laughable attempts to link them.
The Uses and Abuses of the Human Body
Can you understand human history through the history of the human body?
'Seduced and Abandoned': This is What a Movie Deal Looks Like in 2013
Two friends, Alec Baldwin and director James Toback, elected to go to the Cannes Festival with a film crew. Their plan was to make a movie about themselves running around Cannes attempting to raise money for a project. The result is a more candid portrait of Cannes than the distinguished films that will play at the Palais.
May 16, 2013
Big-Government Liberalism Is Not to Blame for These Scandals
The IRS case shows that bad laws can have conservative roots, too.
'The Office' Is Ending, and Maybe the Mockumentary Sitcom Should Go With It
The show has spent its final season dismembering its fourth wall piece by piece.
It's the Technocratic Arrogance, Stupid
Obama isn't Bush or Nixon. He's in hot water for behaving too much like Woodrow Wilson.
May 15, 2013
Black Turnout in 2012 Might Not Have Been Historic
The inherent flaws of the Census' population survey.
May 14, 2013
The Spy Who Shot Himself in the Foot
Would the CIA really send out a spy in an amateurish blond wig? Yes, experts say: They would.
This Is How to Convince Conservatives to Recycle
A new study reveals how to appeal to different political ideologies.
