Bad heartless analogy of the day
Mike Huckabee at work
"How to Be Artsy,' and Mean It"
By Mark Branaman and David Foster Wallace
Philippe Petit on the past and present tenses
On the World Trade Center
Andrew Sullivan, telling it like it is
On frenzied zealotry
Labor Day
A Jack Delano photograph, from the Library of Congress
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Roger Ebert, telling it like it is
On truth and democracy
August 28, 1963
A march on Washington
Timothy Egan and Leonard Pitts, Jr. on American ignorance
Our dumb 21st century
Bravo, Dick Cavett
Speaking about what the United States is really about
Re: the Beloit Mindset List
Really troubling assumptions about reality and young adults
Well said, Daughter Number Three
Eighteen percent of Americans make me tired
Consider Frank Ryan
A cautionary tale
Pete Seeger sings of the BP oil spill
A new song
Proposition 8
Overturned!
The all-in-one room
Mid-20th-century living, with Mary and Russel Wright
Easier living with Mary and Russel Wright
Modern living, mid-20th-century
Newsstand paperweights
Vanishing material culture
American ones
One-hundred voices for the Fourth of July
At least he didn't attempt to explain it as "a poor choice of words."
At least General Stanley McChrystal hasn’t attempted to explain his remarks to Rolling Stone as “a poor choice of words,” the usual fallbac...
Narcissism and overconfidence
And college students
Review, Made by Hand
Review of Mark Frauenfelder's book
Gummies for grown-ups
Vitamin gummies for grown-ups. Oh, grow up.
Studs Terkel interviews, coming online
Radio interviews for WFMT
Leslie Buck (1922-2010)
Designer of NYC's "Greek" coffee cup
In praise of shyness
"At the very least, if you're shy, you're never bored."
Ray LaHood and bicycles
Progressive transportation policies
Digital naïfs
"Many so-called digital natives are in truth digital naïfs. The natives’ naïveté is considerable."
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On the Michigan Theater
End of the U.S. sardine industry
The last cannery closes.