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Radio Music
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AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
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WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
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Evolutionary Psych
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History Today
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Humanities
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Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
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University Bookman
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Washington Post
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WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
<--
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
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Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
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Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
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Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
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Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
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Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
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Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
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Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
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Volokh Conspiracy
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Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
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Toby Young
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24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
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BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
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Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
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Australian Literary Rev
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B&N Review
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Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
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Economist Books
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Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
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Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
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New York Review
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New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
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face=times>Favorites
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face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
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Refdesk
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Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
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face=times>Magazines
Aeon
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Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
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Standpoint
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Tikkun
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Utne Reader
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WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
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Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
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CEO Express
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Nota Bene
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Bach in space
Learning American
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Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
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How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
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Leno, Letterman jokes
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Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
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Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
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Armavirumque
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Atrios
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Bob's Art Blog
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Copy, Shake, and Paste
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Lester Hunt
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Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
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Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
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The Valve
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Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
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Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
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Schedules
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streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
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face=times>Magazines
Aeon
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Chron of Higher Ed
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Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
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Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
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In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
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The Liberal
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Miller-McCune
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New Criterion
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Parameters
Paris Review
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The Progressive
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Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
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Standpoint
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face=times>Book Reviews
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Complete Review
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Economist Books
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Guardian Lit News
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The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
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Melbourne Age
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n+1 Books
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Open Letters
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Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
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WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
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face=times>Columnists
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David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
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Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
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Big Think
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Butterflies & Wheels
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Culture
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Top Ten Books
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face=times>Weblogs
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Becker and Posner
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Brainstorm
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Copy, Shake, and Paste
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Culture Wars
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A.C.Douglas
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Page Views
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Political Animal
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The Revealer
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face=times>Diversions
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Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
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Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
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National Post
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SMH
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face=times>Magazines
Aeon
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face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
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Australian Literary Rev
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Complete Review
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Metapsychology
n+1 Books
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Newsday Books
Open Letters
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Salon Books
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Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Bach in space
Learning American
Kurzweil’s theory of mind
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
face=times>Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
face=times>Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
Boston Globe
CS Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Financial Times
Globe & Mail
Guardian / Observer
Ha'aretz
The Hindu
The Independent
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
London Telegraph
Los Angeles Times
Moscow Times
National Post
New York Times
New Zealand Herald
SMH
USA Today
Washington Post
face=times>Magazines
Aeon
The American
American Conservative
American Heritage
American Interest
American Journal Rev
American Prospect
American Review
American Scholar
American Scientist
American Spectator
Armed Forces Journal
Art News
Artforum
Atlantic Monthly
Axess
Azure
Big Questions
Boston Globe Ideas
Boston Review
Chron of Higher Ed
Chron of Philanthropy
Chronicle Review
CIA Studies
City Journal
Columbia Journal Rev
Commentary
Commonweal
Common-place
Common Review
Defining Ideas
Democracy
Discover
Dissent
The Economist
The European
Evolutionary Psych
First Things
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Fortnightly Review
Harper’s
History Today
Hoover Digest
Hudson Review
The Humanist
Humanities
Independent Review
Intelligent Life
In These Times
Lapham’s Quarterly
Le Monde Diplo
The Liberal
Maclean’s
Miller-McCune
Mother Jones
Ms. Magazine
The Nation
National Affairs
National Interest
National Journal
National Review
New Atlantis
New Criterion
New English Review
New Left Review
New Republic
New Scientist
New Statesman
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Press
NY Times Magazine
New Yorker
Newsweek
Parameters
Paris Review
Philosophers’ Mag
Philosophy & Literature
Philosophy Now
Poetry
Poets & Writers
Policy
Policy Review
The Progressive
Prospect
Psychology Today
Quadrant
Reason
Salon
Scientific American
Seed
Skeptical Inquirer
Slate
Smithsonian Magazine
The Spectator
Standpoint
Der Spiegel
Threepenny Review
Tikkun
Time Magazine
US News
Utne Reader
Village Voice
WSJ Opinion
The Walrus
Washington Monthly
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
World Affairs
face=times>Book Reviews
American Scholar Books
Atlantic Books
Australian Literary Rev
Australian Book Review
B&N Review
Book Beast
Books & Culture
Bookforum
Boston Globe Books
Chronicle Review
Claremont Review
Complete Review
CS Monitor Books
Denver Post
Dublin Review
Economist Books
Financial Times Books
Globe & Mail Books
Guardian Lit News
Guardian Books
The Hindu Books
Independent Books
January Magazine
Jewish Review of Books
Literary Review
London Review
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
Melbourne Age
Metapsychology
n+1 Books
The Nation Books
New Haven Review
New Statesman Books
New Republic Books
New York Review
NY Times Books
New Yorker Book Blog
Newsday Books
Open Letters
Philly Inquirer Books
Salon Books
SF Chronicle Books
Scotsman Books
Slate Books
Spectator Books
Spiked Books
Tablet Books
Telegraph Books
Times Higher Ed Books
The TLS
University Bookman
Village Voice
Washington Post
Washington Times
WSJ Books
Wilson Quarterly
face=times>Columnists
David Aaronovitch
Janet Albrechtsen
Eric Alterman
Anne Applebaum
Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Bassett
Bruce Bawer
Alex Beam
James Bowman
Robert Boynton
Samuel Brittan
David Brooks
Trevor Butterworth
Jon Carroll
Noam Chomsky
Gail Collins
Joe Conason
Clive Crook
Meghan Daum
Miranda Devine
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Michael Dirda
Maureen Dowd
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Suzanne Fields
Daniel Finkelstein
Robert Fisk
Thomas Friedman
Robert Fulford
Frank Furedi
Malcolm Gladwell
Ellen Goodman
Victor Davis Hanson
Johann Hari
Nat Hentoff
David Horowitz
Jeff Jacoby
Clive James
Robert Kagan
Mickey Kaus
Roger Kimball
Martin Kramer
Morton Kondracke
Chas Krauthammer
Paul Krugman
Howard Kurtz
Norman Lebrecht
James Lileks
Tod Lindberg
Salim Mansour
Mark Morford
Brendan O'Neill
Camille Paglia
John Allen Paulos
William Pfaff
Melanie Phillips
Daniel Pipes
Katha Pollitt
Virginia Postrel
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Jonathan Rauch
Carlin Romano
Milt Rosenberg
Roger Sandall
Sam Smith
Thomas Sowell
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
John Tierney
Tunku
Varadarajan
Shankar Vedantam
David Warren
Margaret Wente
George Will
Keith Windschuttle
Jonathan Yardley
William Zinsser
face=times>Favorites
Arion
Baker Street Irregulars
Big Think
Bloggingheads
Butterflies & Wheels
Climate Debate
Daily
Cognition &
Culture
CounterPunch
Cultural Weekly
The Daily Beast
Debka File
Drudge Report
Ducts
Economic Principals
Edge
Ethics & Policy
Eurozine
FrontPage
Gene Expression
Fora TV
Globalist
Guernica Magazine
I Want Media
Ifeminists
Improbable Research
Jewcy
Jewish Ideas Daily
Killing the Buddha
Lapham's Quarterly
Logos
MEMRI
Mr. Beller's 'hood
Nationmaster
Nthposition
Obscure Store
Open Culture
Open Democracy
Overlawyered
The Page
Poetry
Project Syndicate
Quackwatch
Romenesko
Rutherford Journal
Science/Creationism
Shakespeare Web
Skeptic's Dictionary
Smart Set
Snopes
Social Issues Centre
Spiked-Online
Strange Maps
Table Matters
TED
ThoughtCast
TomPaine
Top Ten Books
Web del Sol
Wimp.com
Woodpile Report
Words Without Borders
face=times>Weblogs
Ira Altschiller
Amygdalit
Bryan Appleyard
Armavirumque
Larry Arnhart
Atrios
Adam Baer
David Barash
Matthew Battles
Graham Beattie
Becker and Posner
Two Blowhards
Bob's Art Blog
David Bordwell
Brainstorm
Britannica
Copy, Shake, and Paste
Crooked Timber
Lawrence Solum
Chicago Boyz
The Corner
Colby Cosh
Eric Crampton
Culture Wars
Richard Dawkins
Brad DeLong
A.C.Douglas
Epicurean Dealmaker
Amitai Etzioni
Stephen Franks
Peter Ginna
Instapundit
Michael Kaplan
Allen MacNeill
Marginal Revolution
Norman Geras
Lester Hunt
IWF Inkwell
Steven Johnson
Brothers Judd
Satoshi Kanazawa
Daily Kos
Brian Leiter
Little Green Footballs
Derek Lowe
Colin Marshall
Grant McCracken
Steve McIntyre
Warren Meyer
Middle East Strategy
D.G.Myers
John Naughton
The New Inquiry
Gloria Origgi
Overcoming Bias
Bibliographing
Chequer-Board
Page Views
Michael Phillips
Political Animal
Matthew Price
The Revealer
Matt Ridley
Stephen Romei
Alex Ross
Lib Samizdata
Russell Seitz
Peter Stothard
David Sucher
Talking Points Memo
Three Quarks Daily
The Valve
Volokh Conspiracy
Nigel Warburton
Will Wilkinson
James Wolcott
Wonkette
Woodward & Hall
Toby Young
Radio
News
NPR Hourly News:
RealAudio
24hr Stream: Windows
C-SPAN Streams:
RealAudio/Windows
BBC World Service:
Bulletins: RealAudio
24hr
Stream: RealAudio
CBC
Radio One:
Windows
Australia
ABC:
RealAudio/Windows
VOA
News: RealAudio
Deutsche
Welle TV: Video
World
Radio Network:
WRN
Schedules
Windows
streaming
Public Radio
Fan
Radio Music
ABC Classic Real/Windows
AccuRadio classical
Instant Bach
BBC 3 Real
WCPE Windows/Real
Classic Archive
Concertzender
Bartok Radio Real
KUOL Real/Windows
Klassik Hamburg Windows
Bayern Klassik Windows
RNE Cl·sica
KBPS Classic Real
KING Windows
KUSC Real/Windows
Swiss Classic
WFMT Windows
WNYC
Windows/ITunes
WRCJ Detroit
WGBH Boston
WGUC Windows
WQXR
Windows
WQXR's Q2
Windows
Cool Blue
Windows
Classical
links Europe
Classical links USA
face=times>Diversions
Scarlatti Sonatas
Bad Writing Contest
Blackjack
Cracked
Darwin Awards
Dilbert
Leno, Letterman jokes
The Onion
Poetry Daily
Smoke-Free Carmen
Wine Lovers' Page
face=times>Classics
Francis Fukuyama on the End of History
Robert Kagan on
Power and Weakness
New York Review of Books, vol. 1 no. 1
The Russian Empire, 1910, in full color
Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories
Kahlil Gibran, forsooth
Is God an Accident?
The
Death of Lit Crit
Keep Computers Out of
Classrooms
Newsweek on Threats
of Global Cooling
Julian
Simon, Doomslayer
Martha Nussbaum on Judith
Butler
George Orwell:
English Language
World's Worst
Editing Guide
The Fable of the
Keys
The
Snuff Film: an Urban Legend
The
Abduction of Opera
face=times>Google/Refdesk
Google
Refdesk
Arts Journal
SciTech Daily
Dictionary
CEO Express
Yahoo
Nota Bene
Benefits of rejection
Dear Guy Fieri
Freshly minted
How authors write
Upper middle brow
Philip Roth says enough
Where are they now?
Book shopping with Dirda
Behold the teleprompter
People of the bookshelf
The Neanderthal diet
Black market books
The right Wolfe
Fiction as a genre
Breaking News
ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNBC / CNN / Fox / Google / MarketWatch / MSNBC / NBC / NPR / Reuters / Yahoo
Newspapers
The Australian
Beirut Daily Star
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The maestro. Gesticulating, pointing, urging, cajoling – conducting an orchestra can feel ridiculous. “You’re not showing that pizzicato!”... more»
Mengele’s skull. He lived out his life on the lam, evading capture. But his bones reveal the value of forensic anthropology to human rights... more»
From Wittenberg to Facebook. Martin Luther was the original social-media revolutionary. Via pamphlet and song, the Reformation went viral... more»
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Socrates and Plato bickering in Athens, Irving Howe and Irving Kristol sparring in New York: cities always give rise to new ideas... more»
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Helen Frankenthaler is dead. She rescued abstract art from its excesses, but her legacy is already in peril. Greatness abhors a vacuum... more»
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Once hailed as a pioneer in the study of cognition, Marc Hauser has now joined a long line of scientific hoaxsters, forgers, and data-cookers... more»
Fame is fickle, as Marie Tussaud knew. But as the bar to becoming a celebrity drops, why does the attraction to her waxworks grow?... more»
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The ethical eater. The best way to save animals and protect the environment is to not eat meat, right? Wrong... more»
The multiverse idea. Let’s face it, says Alan Lightman, physics has hit a dead end. We are living in a universe incalculable by science... more»
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Next to a lake in Finland, Jean Sibelius built a house and composed his major works. Then he fell silent. Julian Barnes pays a visit... more»
Boyd Lee Dunlop used to play nightclubs. Now he works the cleanser-scented halls of a Buffalo nursing home. But man, can he rattle a piano... more»
The Freakonomics formula. Anecdote-rich, contrarian narrative + speculative claims presented as fact = publishing phenomenon... more»
Jesus and the Jews. They were his earliest followers. Then Jewish Christianity faltered, and gentile Christianity was born... more»
Herbert Marcuse’s blend of philosophy, psychology, and politics made him a guru to some in the 60s, and might make him relevant again... more»
“I feel as if the whole culture is stoned, listening to an LP that’s been skipping for decades,” says Kurt Andersen. Is this how history ends?... more»
Politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should be able to engage with ideas. How about a panel discussion on the history of the Middle East?... more»
What provoked the London riots in August? Resentment, and with good reason. Brits are provided an education that is nearly useless... more»
The radical evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, dead at 73, didn’t consider her ideas controversial. She considered them right... NYTimes... Edge... Wash Post... Michael Ruse... John Horgan
Why is art so expensive? Because the market for a Klimt or a Picasso defies economic assumptions. “If I can’t sell something, I double the price”... more»
Does the impact of literary scholarship really justify the money and effort that go into it? Not even close, says Mark Bauerlein... more»
Steve Jobs and David Gelernter seemed like natural allies: Both chided technologists for neglecting design. Instead, they fought each other... more»
When his time came, Mozart had no doubt: “I have the taste of death on my tongue.” As for Beethoven, he quipped: “The comedy is over”... more»
The New York Public Library has long been a magnet for intellectuals and eccentrics. But will its new austerity doom a great institution?... more»
To some, evolutionary psychology is fatalistic: Our defects are in our genes. To Steven Pinker, it explains how to make life better... more»
Who’s shaping the marketplace of ideas? A survey of the world’s most influential thinkers suggests that Arab activists are setting the agenda... more»
John Waters is glad that people feel comfortable coming out of the closet. And yet: “I wish some gay people would go back in. We have enough”... more»
J¸rgen Habermas is angry. “Our politicians have no political substance.” If the EU fails, he warns, democracy will be set back 100 years... more»
The mystery of mirth. Comedy is the brain’s way of correcting our mistaken assumptions. But does that explain the pleasure of a punch line?... more»
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – biologist, botanist, crank – revealed the secret life of plants, including the fearsome power of a boiling pea... more»
We will get over the notion of free will, says the neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. Moral agency comes from living in social groups... more»
How a Canadian in a bathtub, together with transgender radicals, and a “mystical anarchist” organized a revolution on Wall Street... more»
The Warhol bubble. Auction prices for his work have jumped 3,400 percent in 25 years. Time for a market correction in contemporary art... more»
Neanderthal neuroscience. What are humans made of? Find 40,000-year-old hominid pinky bone, extract the DNA, compare and contrast... more»
If you’ve been at death’s door or your wits’ end, about to bite the dust or cast the first stone, you’ve inhabited the King James Bible... more»
The study of human illness depends on bloated rodents. Biomedical innovation has stalled, but behold the awesome power of the buck-toothed mole... more»... more»... more»
Jonesing for Freakonomics: Social psychologists are addicted to findings that make headlines. Data massaging is warping the field... more»
Gloria Steinem, still tiny of waist and big of hair, wants you to know that she has never gotten by on her appearance. “Who wants to be feminine?”... more»
Liberals are stupid, according to a ballyhooed study. Now it’s been retracted. Turns out conservatives are stupid, too... more»
Behavioral economics has moved to the policy world. The ideas are being tested on a national scale. How’s that going? Not well... more»
Ticking toward eternity. Can a massive, 10,000-year clock provide some long-term perspective to our instantly gratified culture?... more»
Daniel Kahneman has spent a lifetime thinking about thinking. His catalog of cognitive quirks reveals the limits of intuition... more»
Camus the Jew. He was born a Catholic and died an atheist, but his philosophy of the absurd reveals a deep bond to Judaism... more»
Steve Jobs wasn’t an inventor. He was a tweaker, an idiosyncratic perfectionist who took other people’s ideas and made them better... more»
SlutWalk, body-snarking, cisgender: Feminism thrives on the Internet. Come for Ryan Gosling, stay for fashion, porn, and poststructuralism... more»
For Picasso, originality was rooted in imitation – and theft. Did Cubism emerge from the ears of an Iberian statuette looted from the Louvre?... more»
Geeks in love. When obsessive math whizzes mate, it’s bad genetic news for their offspring, says Simon Baron-Cohen. That’s the theory, anyway... more»
My brain made me do it. Can neuroscience distinguish between an automatic impulse and a self-directed action? Mike Gazzaniga chooses to weigh the evidence... more»
Gushing optimism and cultural ferment – 150 new magazines in Benghazi alone. It’s a good time for intellectuals in Libya. Just ask Hisham Matar... more»
Between Pauline Kael and Joan Didion, the enmity was mutual. The suffering-princess act grated Kael. “I’ve done soul-wrestling. It’s not tough”... more»
When Groucho Marx met T.S. Eliot. The Jewish wit and the morose anti-Semite shared a friendship and a compulsion: extreme frankness... more»
Ilya Khrzhanovsky has erected a film-set panopticon. Civilians act out his fantasies; everyone snitches; the cameras never stop rolling... more»
He had brown eyes and a taste for greasy food. Had he not been murdered, a heart attack would have done him in. Defrosting the Iceman... more»
The future of Freud. Psychoanalysis is changing, but not him: still a cocaine-sniffing, cigar-chomping punchline... more»
Russia in the 1920s: Desperate times produced utopian architecture. Never before had avant-garde design been official government policy... more»
Retractions in scholarly journals are on the rise. Why? Let’s ask an editor. “It’s none of your damn business!”... more»
Literature and the loo. For Henry Miller, the toilet enriched certain works: Ulysses could not be read anywhere else... more»
In bed by 9, awake by 4: Haruki Murakami’s novels, a brew of ennui and exoticism, emerge from a highly regimented life... more»
The greatest director, writer, and producer in the history of radio died this week. They were all Norman Corwin. He was 101... more»
Tough crowd. There’s nothing like lecturing on Tolstoy to an audience of fiercely loyal kin, judgmental literary critics, and Russian novelists... more»
Having dissected her own staggering misfortune, Joan Didion might look like a self-help guru. Don’t be fooled. She’s indifferent to your pain... more»
What’s ugly beyond belief, singed, moldy, water-stained, and, until now, inaccessible? Archimedes’ brain in a box... more»
Anarchism in action. The intellectual origins of Occupy Wall Street aren’t in Cambridge or Morningside Heights. They’re in Madagascar... more»
Violence and misogyny are loud and clear in hip-hop. But pause the criticism. Listen carefully. Hear that? It’s the sound of capitalism... more»
NoÃŽl Coward likened reading a footnote to going downstairs to answer the door while making love. Digression didn’t suit him. He’s not alone...
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The biologist and the billionaire. What’s E.O. Wilson doing in Africa’s Great Rift Valley? Stirring up controversy, of course... more»
In the West, graffiti is an empty, often clichÈd visual commodity. In the rest of the world, it’s the lingua franca of political revolt... more»... more»
Raymond Tallis – fedora-topped medical man, polemical polymath – is keen to cure the humanities of two illnesses: neuromania and Darwinitis... more»
With an existential swagger, Willem de Kooning hopped from affair to affair. Then he met Ruth Kligman: “She really put lead in my pencil”... more»
Enough with the hagiography. Steve Jobs was a genius of invention, but his were not epoch-making innovations. Instant history has its perils... more»
Want to hatch a dinosaur? Might be as simple as reverse-evolving a chicken. It’s just a theory. For now... more»
Maurice Sendak doesn’t mince words. “Detestable” is his view of Salman Rushdie. “I called up the ayatollah – nobody knows that”...more»
Something’s rotten in the Kingdom of Print. Books that call for 60 pages are fluffed out to 600. Why? The dismal economics of publishing... more»
For the smug and misanthropic Ambrose Bierce, cynicism wasn’t an attitude; it was his essence... more»
The hole in The Old Farmer’s Almanac made it easier to hang in an outhouse, where it served dual purposes, equally useful... more»
Quantum mechanics is one of the most reliable theories in science, but that doesn’t mean physicists understand it... more»
For Arthur Conan Doyle, who found “unaffectedness” his own chief virtue, the ideal of happiness was “men who do their duty.” He did his... more»
In 1965, researchers set out in campers to hear Americans talk. The Dictionary of American Regional English is a road trip of the mind... more»
Al Jazeera, victim of its success: Amid the Arab Spring, the network faces competition, in the Middle East and beyond... more»
Right-thinking people take it for granted that, in criticizing business, American literature has saved the nation’s soul. That assumption needs revisiting... more»
5-by-8-inch cardstock, about to be thrown away: the report cards of strangers long dead. Paul Lukas delivered a precious few to where they belong... more»
The fortune of Conrad Black, jailed newspaper mogul, has shrunk to $80-million. “I can live on $80-million,” says the gentleman, unbowed. “At least I think I can.”... more»
Natural selection is hell on dysfunctional traits. So how did humans survive adolescence? New research on the brain offers an adaptive accounting... more»
Sweat stains on the cover of your new Amazon book? Could be from a temp worker in the sweltering Lehigh Valley warehouse; paramedics know the route...more»
Rah, rah, bah, humbug. College sports is a multibillion-dollar racket, says a famed historian of civil rights. It's time to pay those who do the sweating...more»
Is experimental philosophy superficial, touchy-feely, faddish nonsense? That’s the rap on Joshua Knobe. He hears it. He just doesn’t care... more»
Exile and identity. When Ariel Dorfman fled Chile, he left his library behind. His years of roving were shaped by the books he could not read... more»
In Havana, morality is malleable. The open secret: Everyone does something illegal. To eat well, for example, call Mr. Dean & Deluca... more»
Science on trial. In 2009 an earthquake destroyed the Italian city of L’Aquila, killing 300 people. Were seismologists guilty of manslaughter?... more»
For the hyperactive, mildly Asperger-y Stanford computer-science crowd, coding is like cocaine. “It’s misery, misery, misery, euphoria”... more»
Fashion, Kant wrote, belongs “under the heading of folly.” But men, it seems, have always been bemused by catwalk-gazing fashionistas... more»
fMRI’s and free will. Imagine a neuroscientist knowing what you’ll decide before you do. Is consciousness a biochemical afterthought?... more»
“I'm getting old,” says Bernard Lewis. But his memory remains sharp. Just ask him about swapping Marx Brothers films with the Shah... more»
David Protess is one of the few professors whose work actually saves lives. Why was he unable to save his own career?... more»
Beyond humiliation. Brought low by scandal, Conrad Black found a literary refuge in unit B-1 of a federal prison in Florida... more»
Niall Ferguson: not just another pretty face. “The real point of me isn’t that I’m good looking. It’s that I’m clever”... more»
Barry Duncan has built a monument to reversibility. The 400-word Greenward palindrome reads like a slightly batty prose poem... more»
The fate of “forsooth.” Like other abandoned words, it is but an archaic fragment. Its history is distinguished, its future nonexistent... more»
Zomia has been called the largest anarchic region in the world, stretching from Vietnam to India. But is it real?... more»
Struggling through unemployment? Try Taoism. Midlife crisis? Read Nietzsche. Philosophical counselors have the cure for whatever ails you... more»
India’s love for correction fluid and carbon paper endures in the computer age. “Bicycles survived cars. Why not typewriters?”... more»
“One camera can’t show you that much,” says David Hockney, who prefers a multi-lens view of the world... more»
“Inflation,” said Ronald Reagan, is “deadly like a hit man.” Maybe not. Is it time to stop worrying and print more money?... more»
Some people want to know the future; others don’t. Some feel powerful in the face of fate. Others know that the way to escape fate is to not know it... more»
Some people can’t read a book without a pencil in hand. Geoff Dyer can’t read without picking his nose. To each his own... more»
Terrorist methods are widely available – a manual lists 14 “simple tools” to wage violent jihad. So why are there so few Islamist terrorists?... more»
On the road. GPS means that you never have to find your own way in the world. What would Jack Kerouac think?... more»
Losing heir. In his doctoral thesis, Saif Qaddafi endorsed holding war criminals personally responsible. Was he sincere? Probably not; he never was... more»
Ah, the Moulin Rouge: a paragon of decadent, belle epoque entertainment. Toulouse-Lautrec saw it as a scene of poignant melancholy... more»
In the 1960s, an exotic species roamed the earth: jet-set playboys. Today their pricey chivalry is gone, replaced by tweet-happy politicians... more»
Freedom and democracy are incompatible, says Peter Thiel. His solution? Build a libertarian utopia off the coast of California... more»
Temptation’s toll. You spend three or four hours a day resisting desire. The result: terrible decisions... more»
Albert Barnes built an immaculate estate to hold his $30-billion collection of Picassos, Renoirs, Matisses. It was beautiful – and doomed... more»
In the past decade, China has invested $4-trillion in housing. But 65 million homes are vacant. Behold history’s biggest ever property bubble... more»
Brilliant as an artist but dreadful as a man, James Joyce turned his obsessions – religion, sex, bigotry – into deeply moving fiction... more»
Avoid fats and sweets, right? Wrong. Slowly savor the “subtle pleasures of dining” even if that clash with our evolutionary tendencies... more»
When Jean-Francois Champollion died, in 1832, the ability to decipher hieroglyphs nearly died with him. He had trained no disciples... more»
If not born unpleasant, Bismarck quickly got the hang of it. His honesty was brutal and disarming, his manner bullying, his appearance ogre-like... more»
From 1941 and 1944, 750,000 people died in Leningrad. Some left diaries. Has there ever been a comparable combination of malnutrition and eloquence?... more»
By the 1950s, the British Empire had waned. But not in Iran, where red-faced men went around in tailcoats – “helpless, niggling, without an idea”... more»
The faith instinct. Did religion evolve as a response to warfare? That theory isn’t so much wrong as ridiculous. Human behavior isn’t so tidy... more»
Elisabeth Badinter doesn’t do subtle. It’s hyperbole that sells. Her cri de coeur against motherhood is provocative, but unconvincing... more»
Christopher Isherwood was an anti-Semitic hypochondriac with a nasty streak. But he understood the vagaries of love as well as anyone... more»
If pop science is the new self-help, is Jonah Lehrer its Tony Robbins? Their insights are similarly uninteresting and unsurprising... more»
James Brown’s ego was impregnable, his behavior deplorable, his charisma undeniable. The godfather of soul was all hard work and street hustle... more»
At their worst, TED talks turn science into a rat-a-tat of meaningless anecdotes and sweeping generalizations. Exhibit A: Philip Zimbardo... more»
The traffic between science and literature is not one-way. Darwin’s writings weren’t merely freighted with metaphor, but often formed by it... more»
Why do aged eccentrics – Ron Galella, R. Crumb – become cultural darlings? Sometimes a pervy cartoonist is just a pervy cartoonist... more»
Literary criticism is hung up on textuality: intertextuality, subtextuality, contextuality. Enough! What about the thinginess of books?... more»
Papa’s taut prose was marred by engorged nouns and a prideful streak he couldn’t break. At 18, Hemingway signed his letters “Old Master”... more»
August Strindberg was a novelist, painter, alchemist, and believer in the occult. He was also a feminist, but his relationships with women foundered... more»
Immortal ennui. Does eternal life sound appealing? Well, it isn’t. In fact, it’s a bad idea. Living forever isn’t good for your soul...more»
Slang exists to communicate identity and attitude, not meaning. Terms can be witty and appealing, but those who use slang often are not... more»
The devaluation of ideas and intellectual tradition is real. One symptom: Colleges are in the midst of a fiscal, ethical, even existential crisis... more»
Origins of the Golden Rule. Long the stuff of theology and politics, morality is best understood as a feature of biology, not heart and soul... more»
Voltaire teaches that even when you disagree with what a speaker has said, you must defend to the death his right to say it. Well, maybe not... more»
P.G. Wodehouse’s stay in wartime Berlin might make him a fool. But when it came to fascism, the comic novelist was far from a naÔf... more»
Why has E.O. Wilson embraced an erroneous view of evolutionary theory? Two words, says Richard Dawkins: “wanton arrogance”... more»
English spelling: “the world’s most awesome mess” and “an insult to human intelligence.” How did this nonsensical system come together?... more»
Joseph Brodsky brooded on the meaning of life and the place of art in it. The purpose of poetry, he concluded, is “to make the future more tolerable”... more»
If reading stories increases empathy, English departments should be oases of decency and good will. That theory warrants a brief response: Ha!... more»
Eric Hoffer wore the bluest of collars but lived the life of the mind, writing about man as a social, political, and religious being... more»
Nations are rich or poor because of government and social institutions. But the decay rate of organic matter plays a part, too... more»
An absence of polish is what leaves the sense that Susan Sontag was not so much writing a journal as observing herself writing a journal... more»
For Leo Strauss and his acolytes among political theorists, it is always September 1938, and we are always in Munich... more»
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is to be taken literally as well as figuratively, which says far more about the author than about the subject... more»
Bernard Lewis has long been determined to learn “the history of the other side,” and to bring it swarming to life... more»
Jean JaurËs, left-wing hero in France, was killed by a madman. Now his latter-day confreres fight for ownership of his memory... more»
In a bottom-line world, what’s the problem with, say, a market in licenses to hunt down convicted murderers in the woods?... more»
Welcome to Orwell in reverse: The state, rather than elevate war to perpetuate itself, obscures war to perpetuate itself... more»
Ah, the battles over proper language. Delight in pedantry, it seems, is nine-tenths of the charm of English grammar... more»
“The Van Gogh religion” grew when the artist’s self-doubt became symptomatic of the culture. Now doubts plague the works themselves... more»
Lillian Hellman may well prove more important as a figure of her time than as a writer. In any event, her time is long past... more»
Musicologists tend to discuss harmony in technical terms. So they write knowingly about Duke Ellington and miss the central mystery of the music... more»
What meritocracy? Higher education perpetuates privilege and inequality, says Richard Wolin, and it’s a distinctly American badge of shame... more»
Mark Levin read the classic works – Plato, Hobbes, Marx – to diagnose what ails America. The result is a best seller. How can so bad a book sell so well?... more»
Scientism is folly. This has been shown time and time again. And yet, says John Gray, it is another folly to think that scientism will go away... more»
“What is time?” Augustine asked in his Confessions. Fifteen hundred years later, we’re still confused. So what makes us tick? Biology and culture... more»
Psychology is too inward-looking – genes, brains, pharmaceuticals – for answers to our problems. But what about clues to culture and class?... more»
Trollope and Dickens mocked America, but Tocqueville didn’t. It helped that America’s interpreter couldn’t register nuances in English... more»
Masculinity has always been Martin Amis’s great subject. No other male writer has so mercilessly skewered the delusions of male grandeur... more»
Just as vexing as the question of why Rome failed is how it managed to survive for so long. We still don’t have a convincing answer... more»
When it came to plundering the treasures of the Americas, Europeans had help. American Indians had their own way of exploiting the environment... more»
Jean-FranÃois Champollion, father of Egyptology, was a radical revolutionary with a taste for trashy novels. Overwork killed him at the age of 41... more»
Eugene O’Neill was the laureate of eloquent losers: prostitutes, deadbeats, fringe-dwellers. A morose alcoholic himself, he knew misery... more»
Lillian Hellman was a “bitch with balls,” said Elia Kazan. That’s unfair. She was slippery, acerbic, and politically naive, but not a cartoon villain... more»
Parking has been a problem ever since Julius Caesar banned chariots from downtown Rome. Our solution – surface lots – is a design disaster... more»
Ever hummed “Moon River” or had the theme of The Pink Panther lodged in your head? If so, you’ve been grabbed by the Henry Mancini groove... more»
Is Caligula’s reputation as a vicious megalomaniac a bum rap? Not entirely. His behavior served a purpose: satirizing the Roman elite... more»
“The best allies of men’s dominance have been, quite unwittingly, innocent infants.” Does that make any sense? It does to a French feminist... more»
To understand Vladimir Putin, you need to understand his idol, Yuri Andropov. To both men, opponents are not mere rivals but enemies of the state... more»
What does it mean that a piece of writing is “literary”? What quality connects Hume and Chekhov, Bataille and Cicero? Terry Eagleton has an answer... more»
The closer one looks at the age of the avant-garde, the more confounding it becomes. How did people so maladroit change the world’s imagination?... more»
Dwight Macdonald’s antitotalitarianism did him credit, but it can’t explain his eminence. What does: He was incapable of writing a dull sentence... more»
The very same qualities that made Pauline Kael a difficult person – lack of introspection, of self-awareness, and of restraint – liberated her as a critic... more»
Anti-foodie foodie. No organic arugula for Tyler Cowen, just genetically modified meat and strip-mall ethnic eateries. Unpretentious, huh? Maybe not... more»
Franco, Hitler, and Stalin pursued a common goal: Destroy Europe’s political elite, and tilt the continent’s focus from colonization to self-colonization... more»
E.O. Wilson has always relished a good fight. Now he’s turned on the ideas about human nature that made him famous. Here comes the backlash... more»
You Americans are so serious, Stuart Hampshire told Susan Sontag. It wasn’t meant as a compliment. But she wore it like a badge of honor... more»
Health and the humanities. A new field says literature is good medicine. That is surely true, and well and good, but it is not the point of literature... more»
Cubism, pointillism, synchromism: Thomas Hart Benton “wallowed in every cockeyed ism that came along” before finding realism... more»
When it came to critical judgments, Philip Larkin had one question: “As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?”... more»
Few accused Susan Sontag of a light touch. Yet she implored herself: smile less, be serious. “I dread that my sufferings will not be worthy of me”... more»
When David Koker was arrested, in 1943, he started a diary. It survives as perhaps the most nonchalant but complex portrait of life in a concentration camp... more»
There are anthropologists – dispassionate sorts squeezing meaning from survey data – then there’s Michael Taussig, the field’s shaman-like oddball... more»
“Style is substance,” says George Steiner. But style can overwhelm substance, and poetry can inhibit thought. As for Steiner’s style: High art needs high priests... more»
Chastity and lechery, purity and debauchery – attitudes about sex do change. What didn’t change for centuries was the role of women... more»
Date night with God. What if the Almighty isn’t a distant, foreboding figure of judgment, but a regular guy who enjoys quiet dinners and cuddling?... more»
At the far end of theoretical physics, truth and fantasy blur. The glory of science, says Freeman Dyson, is to imagine more than
we can prove... more»
Stanley Hauerwas fancies himself a realist. But his theology of nonwar is a morally perverse creed of eschatological madness... more»
Homework and guesswork, reconstruction and speculation: That’s always been the stuff of biographies. Still is. Don’t be fooled by newfangled methods... more»
What’s got Leon Wieseltier in a sour mood? The much-touted New American Haggadah, an incompetent work devoid of spiritual and intellectual ambition... more»
Jonah Lehrer is the precocious wunderkind of popular science. He’s an affable, Gladwellian liaison to the world of fMRI’s. But is he credible?... more»
“Becoming a member of the Communist Party nullifies all trace of intelligence,” Dali warned BuÃ’uel, who clung to two ideals: Stalinism and Surrealism... more»
Freud’s ideas were unfalsifiable; he exaggerated his own originality; he suppressed criticism. It’s his faults that make him an interesting thinker... more»
“I am happy,” wrote Leonardo, a young Etruscan from tiny Vinci. It was fleeting. His were the insecurities of a spotty education and an illegitimate birth... more»
For a moment, film criticism excited, surprised, and astonished. Think Ebert and Kael, both learned, literate, and smart, but never academic... more»
A celebrated author tackles a big subject. Promising, right? Too bad A.N. Wilson’s biography of Hitler is an error-filled, clichÈ-ridden mess... more»
Sex is a force with a will of its own. For those who hoped to reform the human heart, reality has been a harsh teacher. Pascal Bruckner explains... more»
Freud and friends. The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society was a fraternity – albeit a dysfunctional one, which reeked like a cult... more»
So you want be a historian and reach a wide audience? Be like Barbara Tuchman and skip grad school–which would ruin you as a writer... more»
“Quelle catastrophe!,” Beckett’s wife exclaimed when she learned that her husband had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She knew her man... more»
Jonathan Haidt delights in showing how philosophers get it wrong. Funny that his work is a rehash of moral philosophy, served up as science... more»
How does a fatalistic, damaged man cope after surviving a massacre? By embracing satire, and flashing a smirk at the absurd... more»
The moral significance of people eating people. Cannibals are mental deviants, revolting curiosities. But they were once central to views of human nature... more»
The history of life around the Mediterranean is a tale of technology, from chariots and warships to cheap air travel and the bikini... more»
The locavore life. Food is now a lesson, and taste a moral test. The narcissism of ethical consumption has debased eating into an act of penance... more»
As a student, Milton Friedman took 87 pages of notes on Keynes’s Treatise on Money. “General framework will endure longer than details.” Indeed... more»
Listening to lithium. In 1974, a groggy Philip K. Dick became convinced that the IRS, FBI, left-wing academics, and Richard Nixon were all after him... more»
A combative Buddhist, Steve Jobs lived a life of paradoxes. Here’s one more. Apple is suffocating the Internet... more»
Writers are “dildos for rent”; punk rock was a time before the “furry testicles of disco descended”: Has James Wolcott met a sexual allusion he doesn’t like?... more»
Philosopher on the throne. Catherine the Great, friend of Voltaire, transformed Russia by dint of her implacable will and insatiable sexual appetite...
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Bombastic and narcissistic. Woe to those on Conrad Black’s bad side, like the “sociopathic” Richard Posner, “a dreary, unreasoning pustule of animus”... more»
Pear of Anguish, Heretic’s Fork, Spanish Tickler: Names of pubs? Microbrews? Brands of condoms? No, instruments of torture... more»
Rise of the technocrats. Economic equations and graphs have their place, but they are no substitute for political debates about how to run society... more»
Joseph Roth’s letters are harrowing. A destitute drunk with an ailing wife, he knew what was in store for Europe, unlike his friend Stefan Zweig... more»
New drugs make us smarter, stronger, and longer-lived. Do they also threaten human dignity? It depends. Is death central to a meaningful life?... more»
Cardinal Richelieu’s mastery of 17th-century court politics is by no means archaic. He knew something about divided, indebted superpowers... more»
Those who believe that religious thinkers lack intellectual vitality are better left alone with their childish certainties, says John Gray... more»
Surfing the Internet, says William Gibson, is like “rummaging in the collective global mind. Somewhere there must be a site that contains everything we’ve lost”... more»
Philosophy is in a bad way. In search of something new, scholars are venturing down back alleys of thought. Do we need 60 pages on snobbery?... more»
Ben Jonson was always getting into difficult positions – with colleagues, friends, the law. So it’s fitting that he was buried vertically: head down, feet up... more»
What’s the difference between story-truth and happening-truth? Where’s the line in nonfiction between cheating and distilling, artfulness and fabrication?... more»
String theory is dazzling but unverified. There’s zero proof that it's true. Yet, like fringe cranks, string theorists labor away, unencumbered by reality... more»
“Crazy, debauched, metropolitan, anonymous, gargantuan, futuristic – an infernal cesspool and paradise in one.” Ah, to be in Berlin in the 1920s... more»
The Bible, said Thomas Paine, has corrupted mankind. But the good book’s genocidal passages weren’t always used as a bludgeon against religion... more»
The life of Martin. From teenage yob to shameless swot, Amis was never one for earnest political causes, or the tedium of bien-pensant fashion... more»
Books about poverty typically propose solutions or decry the problem. Katherine Boo is up to something else. She shows how poverty is lived... more»
What’s the meaning of monsters? They’re a moral compass: testing our ethics, shaping our politics, spurring science, and piquing our curiosity... more»
“She was a flamboyant depressive; a woman who kept a revolver in the drawer and bullets in a tin of Pledge.” And you thought you had mommy issues... more»
The Victorian public could tolerate tawdriness in an artist as long as he behaved with discretion. That was not Sir
Edward Burne-Jones’s way... more»
In the 1920s, a dealer selling forged Van Goghs dazzled the German art scene. Was this an early symptom of Weimar’s impending collapse?... more»
“Intellectuals with job security in a university carry a responsibility in troubled times,” argued Tony Judt. And so he was outspoken, sometimes to a fault... more»
Criticism is secondary to writing novels, said Lionel Trilling, who published just one work of fiction. It wasn’t great, and he couldn’t settle for merely good... more»
What happened to Sinology? Recent books, scholarly and popular, suggest a turn toward rank boosterism, historical whitewashing, and hagiography... more»
Film schools are trade schools playacting as art schools and moonlighting in business courses. Their value is dubious, but the demand is insatiable... more»
The wages of modernism. Its inheritance has been enriching or impoverishing or even deadly, but don't look to the academy for a clear-eyed assessment... more»
Nietzsche is put to use by his American advocates as a crusader for truth, a debunker of superstition. But what about his penchant for cruelty?... more»
So you’re trilingual. Big deal. Harold Williams spoke every language at the League of Nations; Kenneth Hale learned Finnish on a flight to Helsinki... more»
Miscarriages of justice almost always suit somebody. That was the case in France in the 1890s. Many had a lot to gain from Alfred Dreyfus’s conviction... more»
Only at Vauxhall Gardens, a pioneer of mass entertainment, could Handel perform for an 18th-century Londoner being serviced by a sex worker... more»
Despised and adored, Nietzsche was the original culture warrior. Though he was read by an eccentric few, we still live in his intellectual shadow... more»
What happened to Caitlin Flanagan? The once-feisty contrarian who urged wives to nag less and put out more has turned painfully tame... more»
Man of ideas. Facing death, Tony Judt took on the air of a cuddly social democrat. He wasn’t. Temperamentally and intellectually, he was a bruiser... more»
Joseph Roth’s novels were melancholic but tempered with joy. In his letters, however, his unsparing misanthropy found free expression... more»
How to invent a religion: Avoid precise terms, like “brain”; use fuzzier words, like “soul.” Create a mythology. Sell it hard. That’s the L. Ron Hubbard way... more»
How to invent a religion: Avoid precise terms, like “brain”; use fuzzier words, like “soul.” Create a mythology. Sell it hard. That’s the L. Ron Hubbard way... more»
More Persian and Indian than Arab, The Arabian Nights is the stuff of Occidental fantasy. What explains Scheherazade’s enduring allure?... more»
Nine books in 13 years, two appointments at Harvard – Niall Ferguson is busy. Perhaps that explains why his new book is a rambling mess... more»
The myth of the guru. Derek Parfit commands respect. But his masterwork is a grand attempt to elaborate a misguided perspective... more»
Saint or crank? By turns a pleasure-seeking aristocrat and a peasant guru of antimaterialism, Tolstoy was both monstrous and moral... more»
Stephen Hawking is brilliant. And his paralysis makes him a symbol of the unfettered mind. His real genius, however, is for self-promotion... more»
Other people’s beliefs. Religion is useful hokum, says Alain de Botton, because it keeps the masses in line. True? Perhaps. Patronizing? Definitely... more»
Attention, novelty junkies: New is not always improved. Ideas that succeed are those that stick around long enough to become old... more»
The Oxbridge don Hugh Trevor-Roper was a merciless polemicist. Then the man who reveled in destroying others’ careers destroyed his own... more»
What does a philosopher look like? Handsome like Wittgenstein? Elegant like Beauvoir? Not exactly. Truth be told, philosophers look weird... more»
Carrie Nation is dead, but prohibitionism lives on, despite a history of hypocrisy and failure. Self-righteousness, it seems, never goes out of style... more»
Churchill wasn’t a beer man. French wine and champagne were more to his taste. But it was whiskey, above all, that “quickened his intellect”... more»
Humans are master dissemblers. Before we can speak, we cry to manipulate our parents. We know why we fool others, but why do we fool ourselves?... more»
To Wilhelm Reich, sexual repression was self-abuse. So unleash your inner “genital man” by jumping in an orgone box... more»
Has the Internet altered our understanding of truth? So argues David Weinberger. It’s an ambitious thesis. Too bad it’s dubious and unoriginal... more»
There is no God and no free will. Right and wrong don’t exist. Nor does love. There is, in fact, nothing Alex Rosenberg is unsure about... more»... more»
Between 1915 and 1946, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe exchanged 25,000 pages of letters. They were never closer than when they were apart... more»
Liu Xiaobo is charged by the Chinese government with the “crime of incitement to subvert state power.” He has the honor of being guilty... more»
You wrote stories but destroyed people, Hemingway’s son told him. “Which is most important, your self-centered shit, the stories or the people?”... more»
Roger Scruton doesn’t do ambiguity. He’s right, you’re wrong. And he can be a bully. But is he also one of the best philosophers of our time?... more»
Decline 5.0. Prophets of American collapse have a poor record. But the fifth wave of declinism is different: It’s being met with resignation, not protest... more»
“God of art.” Tormented and tormenting, Tolstoy nonetheless produced masterpieces of serene introspection and humane insight... more»
“The American way of laughing does me good,” said Nietzsche. The admiration was mutual. Disciples included Mencken, Hugh Hefner, even Huey Newton... more»
The Clive James style. He’s long had a knack for speaking plain sense about complex subjects. Now he has a serious worldview to match... more»
Steve Jobs sold the idea that there is no conflict between the corporate and the countercultural, mass-market appeal and niche cachet. We bought it.. more»
Joseph Epstein reconciles wit with virtue in his scrutiny of the human condition. Envy, snobbery, gossip – no topic is too trivial... more»
Umberto Eco is not bad because he is dangerous; he is bad because he makes history a headache-inducing game of semiotics... more»
Why was Buzz Aldrin’s spacesuit soft? The answer involves a computer simulation, psychopharmacology, haute couture, and Gil Scott-Heron... more»
Faith and knowledge. Could it be that religion and enlightenment are not eternal foes? That religion is reason’s point of departure?... more»
Was Count Harry Kessler the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived? Auden thought so. Just look at Kessler’s wonderfully gossipy diary... more»
Before it became a financial malady, debt was a moral and cosmological condition. We owed the gods, our parents, the cosmos... more»
Freud, James, Kahneman: great explorers of the human psyche. Freud and James plumbed our emotions, Kahneman our cognitive processes... more»
Two men, two worlds. Verdi and Wagner represent opposing conceptions of not only opera, but also ways of life and philosophies of existenceÖ more»
Queen Anne knew heartache, enduring 16 failed pregnancies in 17 years. Deserving of pity, of course, but remember: She was a loathsome, unscrupulous lady... more»
“We are both contemptible individuals,” Michel Houellebecq tells Bernard-Henri LÈvy, who likewise relishes being a pariah. Why are they so hated?... more»
The New Yorker deals with experience by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This allows readers to feel intelligent without thinking... more»
To enliven a well-trodden globe, what’s a travel writer to do? Some try gimmicks, like hitchhiking with a fridge. Evelyn Waugh opted for wit... more»
Sure, left-handedness used to have immoral connotations. But is it really a conundrum worth tracing through the centuries?... more»
“If a mad scientist were to design a machine that would make white liberals uncomfortable, that machine would be Thomas Sowell”... more»
Joseph Epstein is an old-fashioned gossip hound. When done right, he says, the exchange of titillating stories can rise to the level of art... more»
The hatchet man. Dwight Macdonald’s ire was easily aroused. “I can work up a moral indignation quicker than a fat tennis player can work up a sweat”... more»
Writing about cruelty. Historians of war, mesmerized by the theater of combat, have lost sight of the ideological, political, and economic contexts of battle... more»
The ideal critic. Adam Kirsch is a throwback to Lionel Trilling, another thinker capable of opining on all aspects of literary thought... more»
Death is messy, and so too is the way we respond. Mourning makes us uncomfortable, a thing to be acknowledged but not dwelled on... more»
Feminists might be squeamish about women using sex appeal to get ahead, but erotic capital should not be squandered... more»
Christopher Hitchens is the Edmund Burke of our time: two ingenious, subtle essayists whose belligerence triumphed over their judgment... more»
Assassination fiction. Political murders have always stoked the irrational underside of politics. Why do we prefer pseudo-scholarship to the truth?... more»
The African boom. After decades of war, disease, and plummeting living standards, the continent is on the rise. What happened?... more»
Working mothers are nothing new. In hunter-gatherer societies, women brought in half of the food. So much for the myth of passive femininity... more»
Marilyn and Mailer. His essay has been repackaged with photos from a final shoot. ’The pairing has the intimacy and delight of a Pap smear“... more»
Economics might act like a science, but it isn’t one, says Robert Trivers. Its key ideas are naive, and it’d take more than a nudge to fix that... more»
Americans read Nietzsche without becoming Nietzscheans. As for those few who go whole hog, they’re rarely intellectuals of the first rank... more»
It wasn’t easy being George Kennan, a curmudgeon well before he was old. His pet peeve in high school? “The universe”... more»
Though reluctant to work with the U.S. military, anthropologists have a lot to say about the war in Afghanistan. Alex Star listens... more»
Alienation and misanthropy. Stephen Sondheim’s muse is misery – about success, relationships, aging, and mankind itself... more»
“We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” He heeded his own advice... more»
The Book of Genesis is a bedtime soporific, not a page-turner. God, says Jonathan RÈe, is the death of narrative, and narrative the death of God... more»
An epidemic of biologism has gripped academe. Symptoms include the belief that the mind is the brain, and that Darwinism explains everything... more»
Burning and fuming. Writing Bleak House put Dickens into a creative frenzy, with nothing to calm himself but a bucket of cold water... more»
Can world history be described via precisely 100 art objects? Sure, when illumined by cultural relativism with a flicker of hypocrisy... more»
Aliens and us. If those bulbous-eyed green men are so smart, why do they have to stick probes up abductees’ butts to see what we’re made of?... more»
Like the cocktail was to the Jazz Age, the microbrew is the drink for our precarious times. Even the oenophilic Italians have discovered the romance of beer... more»
Martin Amis broke with his biographer. The salacious revelations? Nope. It’s the book’s shockingly bad prose that Amis can’t stand... more»
Stephen Hawking included just one equation in A Brief History of Time. Others followed suit. But can physics be explained without math?... more»
A life in letters. When the day was done, P.G. Wodehouse returned to his chief pleasure: “writing stinkers to people who attack me”... more»
The university is broken. Students learn little and take on big debt to pay for an education that, intellectually, doesn’t amount to much... more»
Nietzsche-mania. From Lionel Trilling to Huey Newton: What is it about this anti-Christian, antidemocratic madman that appeals to Americans?... more»
In private, Samuel Beckett was as you might imagine him: sullenly professing distaste for his own work, too fatigued to do anything new... more»
Michel Houellebecq – nihilist, alleged racist – is a first-rate prose stylist and a practiced provocateur. That doesn’t mean he’s a good novelist... more»
Hitler, Stalin, Mao – three reasons to question moral progress. But has cynicism blinded us to a worldwide decline in belligerency?... more»
Politics of personality. How to explain William F. Buckley? He had ideas, of course – 50-some books. But what mattered was his charm... more»
The revolutionary who loved birds. Rosa Luxemburg’s passion for animals was resolutely cheerful and gentle. Even cloying... more»
In studying William Carlos Williams, it was best to avoid his son. “If you’re a bloodhound come to sniff out my father’s affairs”... more»
To be human is to think recursively. But what if apes and dogs think recursively, too? Time to reconsider what it means to be human... more»
So you want to be a famous economist? Repackage an old idea as a bold new insight. It works for Robert Frank... more»
All religions have bloodstained garments, but Scientology has more blood on fewer garments, more pints per believer... more»
Samuel Beckett wasn’t much for navel-gazing or self-promotion. “I do not know who Godot is. I do not know if he exists”... more»
A night at the Nietzsches’. Harry Kessler – dandified German count, family friend – barely slept. Friedrich, mad and sick, cried all night... more»
Imagine that Trotsky, not Stalin, had succeeded Lenin. Russia would have been spared decades of terror, right? Probably not... more»
Brutality and blazing sun: No greater poem than the Iliad. It shocks still – a spear through the bladder! But really, four new translations?... more»
Hunter S. Thompson. Look beneath the lore and legacy-buffing to watch a writer developing and deteriorating in real time... more»
“Listen, you miserable bitch.” Hollywood didn’t appreciate Pauline Kael’s contrarianism. She couldn’t have cared less... more»
Ben Jonson, Britain’s first literary celebrity, was a bruiser, intellectually and physically. It surprised no one that he stabbed a man to death... more»
He blogs! He tweets! He consults! Jeff Jarvis has a way of turning trivial observations into buzzy business maxims... more»
Spalding Gray, who called himself a “connoisseur of ambivalence,” was certain about this: He was a fraud, life was rotten, he should end it... more»
In the creation of Maus, everything mattered. Were there tufts of grass in Auschwitz? Ruts in the path? Puddles in the ruts?... more»
Behold a scholar of repute, writing on a subject in which he has long been immersed, suddenly out of his depth, awash in psychobabble... more»
Alexander the Great: Hero or tyrant? Neither, says Mary Beard. The king of Macedon was merely a “drunken juvenile thug”... more»
In public, Jackie Kennedy was wooden, wide-eyed, carefully staged. Does that explain why she spoke like a child? Not quite... more»
Politics and principles. When it comes to staying in power, democrats and dictators have more in common than not... more»
John Milton would appreciate today’s personal ads: seekers in meticulous revolt, like Satan, against the reality imposed on them... more»
Evolutionary psychology is mere speculation, says John Gray. Consider, for example, the notion that humans have become less violent... more»
Alfred Kazin, neurotic and bitter, lived in a perpetual state of high anxiety: “My craving for fame, prestige, ‘love’ seems uncontrolled”... more»
Epicureanism is not about heedless hedonism, says Stephen Greenblatt. Rather, it is an antidote to the allure of limitless power... more»
Joseph Schumpeter wanted to be the greatest horseman, lover, and economist of his era. Alas, he had time to accomplish only two of the three... more»
The great illumination. Streetlights changed everything, a fact not lost on those who prefer the dark: thieves, prostitutes, drunks, students... more»
Google wants to know your reading habits, taste in music, and where you are right now. You are not Google’s customer. You are its product... more»
An affectionate if troublesome son, Ezra Pound wrote to his parents almost every day, often more than once. How did he afford the postage?... more»
Hemingway’s later years: Ill health, night terrors. “Forgive him anything,” said a friend. “He writes like an angel”... more»
The British took umbrage at the Qing dynasty for blocking their opium shipments. A fleet was dispatched. Thus was China “opened” to Western trade... more»
David Mamet, Hollywood conservative. Why bother with his welter of invective and pseudo-sophistication when you can go read Friedrich von Hayek? ... more»
Can’t talk or eat or drink, can’t walk or even stand easily. Roger Ebert, scrubbed of self-pity, is sustained by love, movies, and all those memories... more»
The facts of H. G. Wells’s life – imaginative author, social thinker, lover (100 women, he guessed) – are rich enough to constitute a novel. And so they have... more»
Thomas L. Friedman’s optimism is terrifying, writes Andrew Ferguson. And his language? Pointless alliteration + runaway metaphor = Friedmanism... more»
Freakish expectations. The economics of high-fashion modeling dictate that most models starve not by choice, but by necessity... more»
The Harold Bloom Show. The plot: Celebrity, solipsism, and megalomaniacal excess transform a brilliant critic into a hollow sham... more»
Pity Jenny Marx. Her husband, Karl, was arrogant and underemployed. His drinking jags sometimes led to infidelity, or violence... more»
Christopher Lasch’s distaste for the self-regard of intellectuals bewildered his peers. He found their bewilderment reassuring... more»
Twitter, Facebook, and Google filter the world to flatter your preconceptions. Is intellectual cocooning the end of democracy?... more»
The percentage of black and white adults using drugs is the same, but blacks are nine times more likely to go to jail for drug crimes. Why?... more»
Sex, that voyage of discovery for generation after generation. But Ariel Levy has a reality check: You’re not a Cortez of coition... more»
From seamstress to mistress to magnate, Coco Chanel never kept her little black dress on for very long... more»
Gustav Mahler was no austere perfectionist. His music contains multitudes. “The symphony must be like the world. It must be all-embracing”... more»
T.S. Eliot was one of the world’s unhappiest people. His life was a nightmare of anxiety. But misery stirred creativity... more»
Dwight Macdonald, a naysayer by nature, was irascible but logical. Asked why he drank so much, he replied, “I'm an alcoholic, goddamit!”... more»
Christopher Hitchens’s secular moralism transcends left and right. He is a lodestar of candor in an age of double talk... more»
Jane Austen produced frivolous “feminine tosh,” says V.S. Naipaul. But the key to understanding Austen is not her gender, but her genius... more»
Is Gary Taubes a scientific Solzhenitsyn, bravely exposing the nutrition establishment? Or is he peddling his own bunk health advice?... more»
Chet Baker had a pure sound and matinee-idol looks. Then heroin took over. The trumpeter’s self-degradation, says Greil Marcus, is irresistible... more»
Self-control is the best predictor of a successful life. To prevent that next lapse of will, take Steven Pinker’s advice: Eat chocolate... more»
Conservatives, fearful of lowering standards, have long been wary of efforts to democratize higher education. Now liberals are following suit... more»
Mass-produced images cheapen what they portray. You doubt that? Consider pornography and the corruption of desire... more»
On April 30, 1945, Eva Braun bit into a cyanide capsule. She died as she had lived, invisible to the world... more»
Wendy Wasserstein used intimacy as a smoke screen, and, to the dismay of friends, her life – and theirs – as source material... more»
What ails American literature? English departments, says Joseph Epstein, have become intellectual nursing homes, where old ideas go to die... more»
Hitler humor. The ubiquity of anti-Nazi jokes in wartime Germany suggests that instead of acting against Hitler, most critics just laughed at him... more»
Hugh Trevor-Roper was many things – social climber, political intriguer, intellectual bomb thrower – and in none of them was he ever boring... more»
America is ardently capitalist and famously materialist. But, says Carlin Romano, it’s also the most philosophical culture in the history of the world... more»
Envy means wanting and not getting. But artistic envy? That’s another thing entirely. Nothing reveals a writer’s flawed character more than his jealousy of a peer’s success... more»
The Barthesian moment. These days everyone fancies themselves a culture critic. The blogosphere is a Petri dish of amateur semiology... more»
August Comte believed that bureaucracy would save mankind. Now we’re drowning in paperwork. What happened? The sad end of a strange idea... more»
A Russian publisher spikes a translation of Orlando Figes’s book on the horrors of Stalinism. Censorship? That’s what Figes says. But the problem might be shoddy scholarship... more»
What revolution? Egyptian activists are skilled and courageous in protest, but fickle and disorganized when it comes to the grind of winning elections. Francis Fukuyama explains... more»
Kurt Vonnegut’s decline began when he traded being a writer for being a celebrity, and, worse, a spokesman for his facile faith of niceness. At least he deteriorated with eyes wide open... more»
When liberals invoke Jewish tradition, it’s to the prophets they turn. But the prophets’ calls for justice, says Michael Walzer, weren’t political. They were demands for submission to God... more»
By speeding the change in middle-class courtship from parlor to public dating, the automobile did women no favor in the 1920s...more»
Abstruse paper is published in scholarly journal. PR guy runs headlong with one conjecture. Journalists tart it up as “claim.” Result: Intelligent dinosaurs rule alien worlds!... more»
A scientist suffused with a sense of wonder is one motivated researcher. That entirely human feeling merits being at the very inception of scientific inquiry... more»
If death is bad for you, when is that so? Not now – you’re not dead. And when you are dead, you’re beyond all that. Consider Shelly Kagan’s analysis, while you can... more»
James Q. Wilson: Witty, generous with his time, fair-minded, decent, and enormously damaging to the quality of American democracy... more»
Accomplished as they are, the natural sciences are regarded as the gold standard of knowledge. But good science depends on the humanities – even philosophy... more»
On a patrol in Afghanistan, house searches become demolition parties. “Cows: Taliban food. Sheep: Taliban food. Donkeys: Taliban transportation. Kill everything”... more»
There’s a back story to The Avengers. It’s a story of loss, of a man Marvel Comics left behind as it grew from comic books to Hollywood blockbusters... more»
A certain strain of development economics links nations’ wealth to IQ. Problem is, the data for such a premise are either sparse or phony... more»
At his candy store in Bayonne, N.J., Herschel Silverman made milkshakes for Allen Ginsberg and wrote poetry of his own. “Cut the beatnik schmaltz,” the author of Howl told him... more»
In rap artists’ furious response to the L.A. riots, neoliberals grasped the value of multiculturalism. Here was capitalist realism finding a market... more»
The kids are definitely not all right. Want proof? Ask them how often they communicate with their parents. Terry Castle did. She was stunned, aghast, dumbfounded by what she learned... more»
What conditions give rise to great artistic achievements? Wealth, urban centers, belief in God. Wait: What? Secularism is incompatible with creativity?... more»
The blues were born out of victimhood, racism, and the search for solace. Well, yes, sort of. But the music also came from the pages of the Sears, Roebuck catalog... more»
Communism is dead, of course. So why are prominent intellectuals trying – successfully – to transform a blood-stained movement into a beautiful idea?... more»
The culture of prizes, professorships, and political correctness is ruining poetry, says Marjorie Perloff. Will plagiarism come to the rescue?... more»
Go ahead, call Will Self sesquipedalian. He’s proud of his affinity for obscure words, and dismayed at the decline of intellectually difficult art... more»
“Before the crisis, I would have been very pleased to see that academics had a big impact on policy,” says Joseph Stiglitz. “But unfortunately that was bad for the world”... more»
1950’s America wasn’t an era of trivial, middlebrow taste. In fact, more people than ever were watching Shakespeare and reading Socrates. Then the highbrows killed culture... more»
Thomas Kuhn had a magnificent insight into how knowledge accumulates. Popular culture has made muck of his big idea. What’s left of Kuhn’s paradigm?... more»
More and more, physics is encroaching on philosophy. No surprise that philosophers feel threatened. They should, says Lawrence Krauss. Science progresses, and philosophy doesn’t... more»
Gertrude Stein: playful, radical, pre-postmodern, Jewish, lesbian. In short, a target in German-occupied France. But Stein survived just fine. How? She had a soft spot for fascism... more»
Crisis of big science. The expansion of the universe is accelerating. Cosmologists have theories but little evidence. New satellites are needed. But who will pay for them?... more»
William Empson was well known as an eccentric. It’s a tough reputation to live up to. But one night, he soared off the scale of weirdness. Clive James was there... more»
Inequality is on the rise in America. That’s occasioned a lot of populist rhetoric but not much to show for it. Is 99 percent too big a category to be an effective political force?... more»
Catastrophic thinking is on the rise. And why not? The economy is frail, the earth is overcrowded, the specter of war looms. But Pascal Bruckner is here to calm your nerves... more»
Bad taste is good business in the art world. Offending propriety is the easiest way to attract notice. The more repulsive, the bigger the profits... more»
Locke, Tocqueville, and Burke invoked the idea of civil society. So did Nathan Glazer and Robert Putnam. All of that is admirable, but also cause for suspicion... more»
Death by treacle. The culture is awash in transparency, audacious disclosure, and candor. Why is it now assumed that private feelings are always relevant to public discourse?... more»
“We shape our buildings,” Churchill said, “and afterwards our buildings shape us.” He might also have said: We shape our technologies, and afterwards our technologies shape us... more»
G¸nter Grass has put his bitter criticism of Israel to verse. It’s not particularly remarkable as poetry. But as a lens into Grass’s mind, it’s fascinating... more»
Rise of the gutless novelists. Where is today’s Tagore or Orwell? Wedged too tightly behind their laptops, have literary writers given up on politics?... more»
Leaves of Grass confounded early reviewers. Whitman, it was said, mixed “Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism.” The critic was wrong, but full of insight... more»
Great art isn’t about skill, and Damien Hirst has little of that. Yet he does have a knack for finding beauty and charisma in the ordinary and familiar... more»
How could an all-powerful, loving God permit the Holocaust? It’s a mystery, say some believers. That’s obscene, says Ron Rosenbaum. Such talk is the last refuge of theological scoundrels... more»
Margaret Fuller was brilliant and obsessive and dreadful company. “The upper lip habitually uplifts itself,” Edgar Allan Poe said of her, “conveying the impression of a sneer”... more»
Reading Adrienne Rich – poet, polemicist, revolutionary – is both a cerebral and a visceral experience, and an education in what it means to be a woman... more»
Maureen Tkacik has a theory: The Atlantic is a “turgid mouthpiece for the plutocracy” and a “repository of shallow, lazy spin.” But a CIA front? Really?... more»
Scientism is back. But the extravagant claims of the neuroutopians are premature at best. Good science ought to make us cautious; it tends to reveal complexity... more»
The Closing of the American Mind has been called the “first shot in the culture wars.” True or not, it made Allan Bloom a pariah – a wealthy, jaunty, cheerful pariah... more»
Here are the salient facts: The boy is a charming, flying, fearless adventurer who lives on an island. He’s immature, sure, but he’s immensely entertaining company... more»
Criticism of a book is criticism of its author. The sting can linger for years. Kingsley Amis, however, took it in stride. A bad review could spoil breakfast, he said, but not lunch... more»
The world’s most typical person is a 28-year old Han Chinese man with no bank account who earns less than $13,000 a year. Marx would not be surprised. About much else, he’d be shocked... more»
Some things are too complicated to study. When a question stumps the physicists, chemists, biologists, and psychologists, says Noam Chomsky, it ends up with the novelists... more»
Consciousness is seen no longer as the work of the soul, but of the brain. Now that philosophy has become a scientific pursuit, why not the rest of the
humanities?... more»
To be first is everything in science and art. Immortality is at stake. Nobel Prizes, too. Originality is a grand, ignoble, fruitless pursuit... more»
An overmodest timidity has taken hold among high-style, personality-driven essayists like John Jeremiah Sullivan, who plays the doofus on the page. Why? It sells... more»
Will science ever answer all the Big Questions? It’s premature to think so. Physics, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology won’t explain everything. Philip Kitcher explains... more»
The petulant and sometimes maladroit V·clav Havel never became a shrewd politician, but he managed to remain a moral one. His example is more relevant than ever... more»
Scholars in China used to be specialists and public intellectuals. Then the Communists took over. Now the specialists publish rubbish, and the public intellectuals aren’t public... more»
Prada’s paradoxes. The mercurial doyenne of high-fashion is a droll contrarian. “To be a fashion designer, you must give up your brain”... more»
Some concepts persist only because no one stops to consider that they’re meaningless, like “literary establishment.” There is no such thing. Geoff Dyer would know. He’s a member... more»
Pity the liberals of the Muslim world. Extreme and perverse ideologues now hold sway. Their goal: narrow the limits of what everybody else is allowed to think... more»
Museums were once tangible manifestations of idealism. But creeping professionalism and a bottom-line sensibility have taken a toll. What remains? A cafe with art... more | | |
