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I want to share with you a penetrating insight about our relationship to media… in case you missed it when Marshall McLuhan had exactly the same insight 45 years ago. Addendum: While I’m not wholly out of sympathy with Ezra’s paean to Google in reply to the column above, it’s worth saying that knowing how […]

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This BloggingHeads dialog between Will Wilkinson and Robert Wright is quite good.

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So, on Wednesday evening, mostly as a show of solidarity with my friend Will, I popped by an America’s Future Foundation panel with the inauspicious title “Are Atheists the New Religious Right?” (Short answer, as the moderator recognized right off the bat: No.) One of the panelists was Keith Pavlischek of the Ethics and Public […]

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For all the Tom Lerher fans out there, Kieran Healy of Crooked Timber has written a hilarious little ditty about Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, to the tune of Lehrer’s classic “National Brotherhood Week.”

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…is that it’s not about Parli debate, which means the actual debating will be unintelligible to anyone not an initiate of the high-speed recitation known as “spreading.” Still, I suppose I will have to track down a showing of Resolved. (Hat tip: Laure)

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Hey journalists, looking for someone to comment on the fires raging in California? My old friend Kevin O’Reilly observes that Michael “Heck of a Job” Brown is now pitching himself as an analyst-for-hire.

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Surprise, surprise, David Horowtiz is pissing off the left again—this time with a Islamofascism Awareness Week, which will be observed by way of a series of talks, film screenings, and other events at college campuses. The backlash from groups like Campus Progress has mostly centered on objections to the term “Islamofascism,” which they argue tends […]

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I’ve always found irritating the penchant of some on the left for casting policy disputes as centrally questions of “selfishness” or “generosity”—even if it’s too familiar to rankle much at this point. It seemed like a distracting ad hominem, a way of shifting the conversation from substantive arguments to pointless speculation about ultimately unknowable motives. […]

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Each time I come across another semi-literate screed by Matt Barber, the male who seems to be the loudest voice of Concerned Women for America, I’m tempted to write a post pointing out how hilariously wrongheaded it is. (And they’re all hilariously wrongheaded.) But I never do, partly because it’s not clear anyone’s paying attention […]

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