Rick Kleffel is an independent producer with NPR, and has interviewed a remarkable range of figures, and reviewed a massive amount of books. You can view his work here. He recently sat down with Charles...
In an August 21 article in The New Republic [The Best Laid Traps], Damon Linker calls the Born Alive Infant Protection Act a “trap” deliberately set for Barack Obama by “theocon”...
The Times Editorial Observer featured Make Magazine’s Mister Jalopy today, who issues a simple request: Please make it easier for us to tinker with your stuff. Yes, many of us marvel at technological...
A nice showing by both indeed. US came #1 by total – 110 medals in all, with China leading in Golds. Great Britain showed an impressive #4 overall, beating out the rest of Europe. The home office...
This letter comes from Evolution Charles on the American Civil War Darwin writes the great American botanist Asa Gray during a turbulent point in American history. Darwin’s feelings on slavery were...
From Flynn’s ordered-government liberalism, we turn to Future Imperfect author and hard-core libertarian David D. Friedman for his views on a very visible political party that doesn’t always...
James Flynn (as in, The Flynn Effect), asks in his latest book: “Where Have all the Liberals Gone?” But what does he mean by “liberal?” Thomas Jefferson Without Jefferson, we would...
August 19, 2008 No, the other one. Everyone is busy counting the US-China contest for medals. Rightly so; it’s close. Here in the New York office, we’re watching a different set of numbers: Now,...
[Update: take our poll below!] How to reduce your carbon footprint? This time, the answer is drink your wine from a box! ‘ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that...
And were the Georgians’? I admit it: no matter how many news stories I read, I hadn’t sorted the whole thing out. Some Canadian law students have taken care of that, and on a site with a great...
Questions, questions. And lots of dead animals sent by post. Darwin was very inquisitive. He had to be. But this letter has a wonderful quality to it. He’s about to go collecting pigs’ jaws...
Yes, I have a background in religious studies, so this excites me more than many international crises, but still. Cambridge had their booth going strong near the Lambeth conference, and someone snapped...