The email challenge came like a squirrel defiantly placing an acorn on its shoulder and daring me to knock it off: “respond to this damn article.” The damn article ...
BREAKING NEWS (well, sort of"it happened over a month ago)"The world's largest sailing yacht has caught fire. Barry Diller's Eos, named after the Greek goddess of the ...
Mixed martial arts is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports, and many say it is already more popular than boxing. Yet MMA's sociological and historical significance ...
Everywhere I drive in the Italian countryside I come across fields that are now desecrated by ugly solar-power plants. These silver constructions would be aesthetically ...
GSTAAD—Purity in a sport does not mix with popularity, and defending the former is anathema to the hucksters, crooks, and profiteers who encourage the latter. In this I do not ...
When James Eagan Holmes had been in custody for hours and the sun broke over the tragic scene of a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the typical recriminations began. ...
Our church recently held a graduation ceremony for our high-school seniors, who stood in front of the congregation and talked about their dreams and plans. The one who struck me ...
Comes now news from across the pond that executives at one of the world’s most respected banks, Barclays, rigged Libor. Even the venerable Bank of England is apparently ...
Italian communists always wanted a revolution in Italy, but I do not think that this is quite what they had in mind: A Chinese man has just bought the bar at their party ...
In the abstract world of economic thought, certain abstract thinkers have come upon the idea that “stimulus” spending will cure what ails you. This pleasant bromide ...
About two months ago I mentioned my disappointment that Raleigh, NC lacked Southern culture, only to be informed in the comment section that true sweet-tea-drinking Southerners ...
Facebook's disastrous IPO was less an "initial public offering" than an injurious public ordeal. Is it possible that the investors snapping up shares were the only folks ...
It's 2012 in New York City and grown men are still writing their nicknames on everything. They come up with names such as Revok and Daim and vandalize other people's property in a ...
It is very still as I sit down to write, the atmosphere heavy and oppressive. They say time flies, but less so if one looks backward. Nearly a thousand years before Constantinople ...
The struggles of even the best-connected California celebrities to nail down every last one of the permits they need to build on their own property helps demonstrate why ...
The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the Bundesbank executive board, is a rambling critique of the eurozone. His book Deutschland braucht ...
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