An interesting article in the British business publication Financial Times about how many companies–including high-tech companies–are trying to do away with e-mail: “We believe email is fundamentally unproductive, you need to sift through too many documents and things get lost,” says Leerom Segal, president and
Michael Gerson gives the most lucid explanation I have found for what the Higgs boson–a.k.a. the “God particle”–is. He also explores the implications of the strange fact that mathematics, which is a function of the human mind, can actually predict what things exist in the
President Obama on himself, speaking in an interview with 60 Minutes: “The issue here is not going be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any
Aaron Lewis, who hung out a couple of times with Christopher Hitchens, pointed out that the British assessments on the occasion of his death are rather more measured than what the Americans are saying. Aaron alerted me to this comment from Alexander Cockburn on Hitchens:
Columnist Ezra Klein introduces a useful concept, the “last chapter problem”: In March, the historian David Greenberg wrote an essay on “why last chapters disappoint.” He began by reviewing “Public Opinion,” Walter Lippmann’s 1922 treatise arguing that the longtime dream of a rational, enlightened democracy
Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright who spent 5 years in prison for undermining the communist regime, has died. After communism in Russia and eastern Europe was so discredited that it fell apart, Havel was elected president of his newly freed nation. It was the writers
There are all kinds of questions about whether Romney, or Gingrich, or Perry, or whoever, is a true conservative. Surely Ann Coulter is a true conservative, yea, a bona fide right winger to a fault. She is supporting Romney. She says, “of the available candidates,
The North Korean “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is dead. His son, twenty-something Kim Jong-Un, has been named his successor. The military is running a missile-test, as if to warn the world to stay back. 2011: A bad year for dictators. Gaddafi overthrown and killed. Mubarak
What I don’t understand is why the militant secularists are expending so much energy to remove Christmas from the cultural calendar while ignoring Christianity’s more immediate influence on the patterns of everyday life: the weekly calendar. Government workers, students in public schools, and many other
American politics is polarized. Our government is in a state of paralysis. Conservatives, liberals, and moderates are at each other’s throats. National unity is no more. And yet, I see a presidential candidate who might be able to bring the country together: Ron Paul.
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