Happy March, everyone!  Well, as happy as March can ever get, anyway.

The Bernie surge--the Burge?--makes me think about a lot of things.  One of the things is the way that a lot of his...

Reading this piece and this piece in quick succession gave me a feeling of whiplash and one of deja vu.

For a long time, Democrats have been seen as a “godless” party.  This is...

Here's a fun piece by James Wood--excerpted from the Introduction to his new selected essays, Serious Noticing, on two different kinds of reading, exemplified by two different kinds of looking for...

So much to read.

Some really good statistics here (and the graph, visible in part below, is pretty interesting): "On balance, mainline Protestants are political moderates. Because of...

This book is entitled Hitler’s Uranium Club: the secret recordings at Farm Hall. It is edited by Gerald Bernstein, writer for The New Yorker magazine, and a physicist as well.

It tells the story...

People keep producing trivial reports, and someone's got to acknowledge their existence; I guess that must be me.  And you.  Which makes this post meta-trivial.  Let's get to it, then. 

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When the President of the Brookings Institution--a career military man, a centrist if ever there was one--feels obliged to talk about "White Supremacy" as a threat at home comparable to "terrorism"...

At first, I envied Austen’s characters this daily face-to-face social interaction: I often go weeks without seeing even my closest friends in person, staying in touch via Facebook or SMS instead...

I'm old enough now, and have a good enough memory, to have lived through several cycles of up/down in the reputation of public figures.  Nixon was a crook!  Yes, but he was a sage geopolitical...

Gonna go see PARASITE with my daughter today, at last, so that should be cool.  I hope something in the below is good for you.  

Misperceptions of both sides of the political fence are rif...