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Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post was a highly unusual thing. A public figure, responding to new facts unavailable before,…
2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan
Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post was a highly unusual thing. A public figure, responding to new facts unavailable before,…
"Brother, I’ve seen some" by Kabir, appeared in the March issue of Poetry, and is translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna…
Peter Wehner riffs on Yural Levin's new essay, “Beyond the Welfare State": Walter Lippmann wrote that at the core of every…
Building off David Foster Wallace's philosophy, Leland de la Durantaye contemplates the nature of love: Are we free to love?…
Stefany Anne Golberg eulogizes live performances, whose numbers have dropped by 61 percent over the last five years: The death of stage…
More depressing news about Israel's next generation: A recent survey of the political opinion of Israeli youth shows a significant move to the…
Don't dial drunk:
James Altucher explains why he doesn't donate to big charities: The American Cancer Association might be a great charity. But what will my…
Daniel Kalder reviews Qaddafi's other book, 1993's Escape to Hell, a collection of short stories and essays: In the title story …
Vinnie Rotondaro reports on the shifting landscape for female funeral workers: Before the 1860s, caring for the dead was viewed as a…
Now for the truly chilling part - Michele Bachmann being groomed for the big time by the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin: If you thought…
Al Jazeera notes the following: US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been providing covert training to rebel fighters in the…
Harry Reid's comment that "we'll look into" the despicable Christianism of Terry Jones unnerved me. Butters unnerved me some…
Lapham's Quarterly made a matrix.
Greenland, New Hampshire, 6.50 am. Our reader writes: This was my husband's last view when he died at home last week.
Greenland, New Hampshire, 6.50 am. Our reader writes: This was my husband's last view when he died at home last week.
Talleyrand wonders where the small acts of individuals - from a fruit seller in Tunisia to a fundamentalist Christian in Florida - will take…
Rothkopf concentrates on China's advances in science and research: It is an axiom of history that the silent revolutions -- like those that…
Fighters battle in Manhattan's Union Square during a massive pillow fight on April 2, 2011 in New York City. Over 130 cities worldwide are …
Michael Chorost uses the brain's own structure to imagine the future: Without a corpus callosum, the right and left halves of the brain…
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The Civil War
A 150th-anniversary commemorative issue, with Atlantic work by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and others. Read more › |
James Fallows on Obama's first term, Raymond Bonner on the death penalty, Christopher Hitchens on G.K. Chesterton, and more