The Stopped Clock

Prof. David Bernstein questions whether the BBC is objective , complaining about a story he heard on BBC radio "a few years ago". ...

Businessweek informs us , Apple Inc. may already have told investors all it needs to about Steve Jobs’s health problems in its statement yes...

Or his scathing criticism of Clear Channel? I understand why Clear Channel or the radio station would want to pull down the "straigh...

The Washington Post brings us an amazing insight into President Obama. You may not have suspected this from his campaign promise not to rais...

There's not much point in reading a Charles Krauthammer column. He's as repetitive as Richard Cohen and 99% of the time you know wha...

Save perhaps to the extent that existing gun laws that are supposed to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill were not adequatel...

Paul Krugman writes , I’m not quite sure what search-engine sex would involve. Perhaps I should leave this with "Don't Ask "? ...

Jeffrey Rosen's article about Justice Scalia in the New York Times reminded me of some "back of my mind" thoughts on Justice ...

What mythago said . I sense that we're going to be overwhelmed with attempts to distance Loughner from the right wing world. "Som...

Todd Zywicki is once again crying in his coffee for high interest rate lenders : Look, I am no fan of payday lending and auto title lending,...

In the Washington Post's latest unsurprising effort to keep taxpayer money rolling into Kaplan (okay... maybe they truly believe it'...

Following up on " antithesis ", today's object lesson comes in the form of " mendacity ". "As I deliberate and ...

Here's an interesting essay describing how cultural factors in China make it extremely difficult for its schools to break away from a ...

Michael Gerson is brimming with advice for the President, this time channeling David Brooks : The most effective responses are also the most...

Last week, Michael Gerson reliably served up a heaping serving of bad advice for the President, layered upon a number of self-contradictory ...

In an article entitled " Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google ", a professor describes the experiences of his student...

And I don't know why you would be... The most popular pages of this blog over the past year, subject to any number of caveats (e.g., t...

David Brooks ends the year by telling us what he's been reading lately . C'mon, David - phoning it in on New Year's Eve? For the...

When the organization behind that rookie's placement has immense lobbying power . Last week, an "anomaly amendment" was insert...

... That's isn't properly supported by the data . Yes, it's nice to think that a kindergarten teacher can have a profound effect...