The Japanese company Nikkei has bought the Financial Times, and I wish them well of it. There can be few duller publications in the world, in whose pages, unless one is interested ...
Something very morbid is going on in the press these days every time there's an act of violence by a person who might have racial, religious, or ideological motives. If the perp ...
In the classic Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze," Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregory asks Holmes, "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my ...
Rolling Stone has had a tough time lately. First, the collapse of the UVA rape story destroyed any semblance of credibility the magazine once enjoyed. Subsequently, Rolling ...
We see it every day. Pick a news story, any news story, and it's guaranteed that some journalist will spin it to scream "racism." Look at the past few weeks. David ...
Rich Lowry wants you to know that, "No, National Review didn"t endorse gay marriage," you silly. Alas, he was ten days late, and now the magazine's spring fundraiser ...
Whenever I see liberals salivating over some black guy I"ve never heard of, my first instinct is always suspicion. Call it "Obama Trauma." When they described Neil ...
Of all the people I"ve tussled with in my professional life, Dr. Michael Shermer, bestselling author and professional "skeptic," draws the least amount of sympathy ...
Self-blame is no doubt salutary when one is truly blameworthy, but there is also a kind of self-blame that is exaggerated, insincere, grandiose, and exhibitionistic. It is also ...
ThoughtCatalog.com has had a crappy week. Many people are suddenly hearing about that upstart online magazine for the first time, on account of not one but two ...
If you missed it, you missed out: one of the best comedy accounts in Twitter history (even better than @Vice_Is_Hip, which I long thought to be Gavin himself) has been ...
"Perhaps it all goes to show that the middlebrow is inherently corrupt." That's a particularly sweeping statement of smug class-conscious snobbery, even by Guardian ...
Ever notice that when you read an article on something you know a lot about, they"ve got 50% of the facts wrong? Whether it's a story about your hometown or your favorite ...
The New York Times" first female executive editor was recently canned after only three years on the job, and geniuses from Gawker to New Republic instantly assumed it was ...
One of the great but perverse pleasures of my life when I"m in New York City is to read The New York Times. It's perverse because no paper north of Saudi Arabia lies quite as ...
Is Salon.com the worst political commentary website on the Internet? I ask not as a snarky observer, but a genuine inquisitor. The webzine brands itself as a news outlet ...