May 20, 2013
No, Marriage Equality Hasn't Won Yet
The founder of Freedom to Marry takes issue with Michael Kinsley's argument that marriage-equality advocates have engaged in bullying.
Little Debbie Gets a Fashion Update
Annals of branding: The snack-food icon gets a minor makeover, but the company wants you to know she's still innocent and pure.
The Hillary Clinton Movie: The Winners and Losers
We've read the screenplay for the upcoming Hillary Clinton biopic. It's full of political notables. So who comes off looking best?
How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform
"Michelle Rhee simply isn't interested in reasoning forward from evidence to conclusions: Conclusions are where she starts, which means her book cannot be trusted."
May 19, 2013
He Square Roots, He Scores
John Hollinger went from ESPN blogger to NBA executive. Now his Grizzlies are on a playoff run.
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.
