Through the Looking Glass

My, it's been a while. So, this : The helpful thing, if you're overwhelmed by so much news going on at once, is that Bahrain is ro...

Went to see Shepard Fairey's new exhibit at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (through August 16th, about 10 minutes' walk fr...

While I'm reviewing things, a capsule book review: The Caryatids, by Bruce Sterling. A brief excerpt: He pulled the belt from his uni...

The Wall Street Journal laments the decrepit state of our investment banks: Investment banking has since become a phantom realm, where eve...

Comrade Greenspan's Five Year Plan Some of the damage from the housing bubble is obvious. People are getting kicked out of their home...

Still wondering if there really is a financial crisis? By way of an answer, the government of California has just announced that they need...

Ross Douthat tries to defend Sarah Palin: Most of the attention has focused, justly, on Palin's flat-out incoherent answers to some of...

Treasury Laser-Shark Facility Draft text of Dubya's bailout plan has leaked , and it's being criticized not just by economists , ...

Out of a morbid attraction to train wrecks, I'm watching CNBC. One of the guests this morning was a "private equity guy" from...

An interesting Google search: palin dominionist . Another: mccain imprecatory prayer . For those who can't stand surprises: the ha...

If millions of people take mortgages that they can't afford, and the ensuing mess threatens the stability of the financial system, the g...

Quite a few bloggers are really excited to see Joe Biden lay into McCain on the issues. I'm not. Biden says the Republicans don...

It was in the news this morning that McCain campaign staff was writing Sarah Palin's speech . How, then, to evaluate Palin herself? I...

There's been some talk lately of unfair attacks on Sarah Palin from the liberal blogsphere, and I'm afraid to say I'd been consi...

Reading the New York Times coverage of the war in the Caucasus between Russia and Georgia, you can learn all sorts of interesting things. O...

A few days ago, Matthew Yglesias was lamenting all the reporters spending time trying to track down a copy of Barack Obama's undergradu...

The luxury New York real estate market isn't in the same doldrums as, say, Irvine, California , or at least not yet. But the New York T...

It's been weeks since Hillary Clinton left the Presidential race. She has now repeatedly, and enthusiastically, endorsed Barack Obama. ...

An excerpt from a speech Obama almost certainly won't deliver in support of the promised filibuster of telecom immunity that apparentl...

Many moons ago, I attended a panel discussion at Harvard's Kennedy School about the state of the War on Terror. At one point, the panel...