Larison joins me in defending Trita Parsi: If Goldberg had any interest in being fair to Parsi, he would have to acknowledge that Parsi has also argued for a pause in pursuing any engagement with Tehran in the wake of... Full story...
Frank Furedi hates that current "educational fads are based on the premise that because we live in a new, digitally driven society, the intellectual legacy of the past and the experience of grown-ups have little significance for the schooling of.
Erik Stokstad reports that a group of researchers has found that Americans waste about 40% of their food: Food waste is usually estimated through consumer interviews or garbage inspections.
Choire hoists the standard: At a bar last night, I was talking to someone smart who made an excellent point: that a very quiet, revolutionary act in the history of publishing had just taken place.
A reader writes: In your post there was a small but odd detail that caught my eye. You write "until Christians start condemning the greed and debt and consumerism of the past two decades as morally wrong, they have no.
The latest review of Sarah Palin's work of magical realism by someone who knows the truth comes to the same conclusion as everyone else: In Going Rogue, Palin mentions none of Wooten's military record, but cites many charges that were.
Jonah Lehrer reviews Stanislas Dehaene's new book: One of the most intriguing findings of this new science of reading is that the literate brain actually has two distinct pathways for reading.
A reader writes: I disagree completely with you and Packer. Yes, as a person-under-thirty I came of age politically under the nightmare of Bush and I campaigned vigorously and voted for Obama.
I remember very vividly a heated argument with Karl Rove over eight years ago in which I worried about spending and deficits.
A formal investigation of Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese concludes that there is “no doubt” that child sexual abuse was covered up by Church authorities over four decades.
Julian Sanchez has a smart post on Palin-mania and the blogs aping the MSM: We like to say new media is allowing us all to be journalists.
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