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But of all the cultural predictions after 9/11, the first proved the wrongest: that grief and war would moderate our culture and elide our differences. Movies would stop blowing up buildings; reality shows would stop humiliating people; comedians would stop being ironic. Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly envisioned a day...
In this time when the majority in both parties are afflicted by blindness to the real struggles, elections only serve to rotate power between a Commander-in-Thief and his group of bandits. These rogues steal public potential and societal focus away from those opportunities that could impact true human...
He topped a BBC poll of all-time "Great Britons" two weeks ago. A few days earlier a German scholar grabbed headlines by accusing him of deliberately bombing civilians during World War II. Book-stores teem with his biographies, including new entries by historians John Ramsden, John Lukacs and John...
Bragging about your fancy new cell phone is a fleeting pleasure; after all, today's coolest models tend to be next month's paperweights. By contrast, the half-life of a cordless phone for the home is measured in years. So if you really want to be ahead of the...
Iweala, who performed the fleeting rhymes and ever-changing rhythms of his spoken-word poem, “The Rail,” to intermittent audience cheers, said he was delighted to be one of the evening’s winners.