What is it about writing for The New York Times that makes people stupid? Paul Krugman’s recent attempt to blame Sarah Palin for the actions of the deranged murderer Jared Loughner was only the latest of many proofs he has given that you don’t have to have a lick of common sense to win the Nobel…
In yesterday’s Washington Post, critic Hank Stuever panned the Golden Globe Awards show the night before on account of the antics of its Master of Ceremonies: “Are we at war with England?” he asked. “If not, then why have we been subjected to two years of Gervais hosting the Golden Globe Awards, witnessing a growing hostility…
A philosopher misunderstands humanity’s code — from The Weekly Standard of January 17, 2011
If ever there were a refutation of the notion that has somehow got abroad that conservatives “hate” or otherwise wish to think ill of President Obama, it is to be found in the reaction of so many of them — for instance, here and here and here and here — to his speech in Tucson yesterday evening. The media…
Oh dad, poor dad! I’ve been watching TV and I’m feelin’ so sad — From The American Spectator of December, 2010-January, 2011
Time to send in the clowns of reason and sanity — from The New Criterion of December, 2010
Lucy Jones, blogging for the Telegraph of London, writes, more in sorrow than in anger, that Kanye West has crossed a line. Actually, she is quoting from Kanye himself in the peroration, as it were, of “Monster,” where he presents Bon Iver saying: I-I crossed the line-lineAnd I’ll-I’ll let God decide-cide. Big of him. But…
Writing in National Review online, Andrew Klavan announces with delight that “After years of declaiming against the Left’s domination of our culture, I’m startled and delighted to discover that the tide is beginning to turn.” The only evidence he offers for this remarkable contention in what is otherwise an unexceptionable exhortation to his fellow conservatives…
In today’s Washington Post, Jason Horowitz registers a weary complaint about the Pope. In Rome The Vatican on Tuesday clarified the remarks of Pope Benedict XVI. Again. In what has become an excruciating ritual for frustrated supporters of the Church, the Vatican issued a lengthy statement to explain what the pontiff meant, this time in comments…
Writing in New York magazine, John Heilemann notices a number of striking parallels between Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame. But even more than their founders, the organizations are alike in important ways: Both are platforms on which great masses of previously private data are made public; they are archetypal…
A disappointing and frankly implausible romance whose author doesn’t seem to have his heart in it
