October 31, 2003
New Criticism
Wesley Clark’s gutsy new tack: Blame Bush for not preventing 9/11.
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| Punditry
A Must-Read Speech
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s remarks from the “New American Strategies for Security and Peace” conference
Posted by cds at 06:09 PM
| Politics
Fox News: The inside story
A former Fox producer describes the ways—both subtle and blunt—that top executives impose a right-wing ideology on the newsroom.
Posted by cds at 03:13 PM
| Politics
October 28, 2003
Form and Dysfunction
Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things and Jordan Melamed’s Manic
Posted by cds at 12:49 PM
| Culture
Infinity, iyi
By Georg: David Foster Wallace stares into a mathematical abyss and lives to write about it
Posted by cds at 12:14 PM
| Culture
October 27, 2003
October 24, 2003
Rumsfeld’s Pentagon Papers
WAR STORIES
His leaked memo is the most astonishing document of this war so far.
Posted by cds at 11:15 AM
| Politics
October 23, 2003
Times Warp
How The Washington Times twisted the Prospect’s interview with Bill Clinton
Posted by cds at 09:24 PM
| Punditry
Unplugged:
How Microsoft’s Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All
Posted by cds at 06:52 PM
| Tech
The general and his ground troops
Howard Dean is not the only Democratic candidate who has inspired an army
Posted by cds at 02:00 PM
| Politics
October 22, 2003
New York in Reverse
OBIT
Elliott Smith’s idea of heaven was modest, like everything else about the songwriter.
Posted by cds at 11:00 PM
| Culture
Elliott Smith, 1969–2003
Despite his success, the fragile and brilliant alt-troubadour never seemed comfortable with his career—or his life.
Posted by cds at 05:53 PM
| Culture
Going for baroque
Neal Stephenson’s new “Quicksilver” takes a fantastical, circuitous tour of the 17th century in search of the roots of science and the nature of the universe.
Posted by cds at 04:08 PM
| Culture
October 21, 2003
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW
One of the Longest, Most Difficult, Most Ambitious Novels in Years
Posted by cds at 05:20 PM
| Culture
The 9/10 President
BUSH’S ABYSMAL FAILURE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.
Posted by cds at 05:16 PM
| Politics
Papered Over
The country’s leading editorial pages are ignoring the Plame scandal.
Posted by cds at 02:18 PM
| Punditry
October 20, 2003
The Stovepipe
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.
Posted by cds at 02:51 PM
| Politics
October 18, 2003
October 17, 2003
October 16, 2003
Framing the Dems
How conservatives control political debate and how progressives can take it back
Posted by cds at 09:18 PM
| Politics
United States: the Strangelove doctrine
Mention nuclear proliferation and people think of North Korea or Iran: But what about the United States? The Bush administration plans to use nuclear weapons even against countries without them. It also intends to enrich its massive arsenal with new high-precision bombs.
Posted by cds at 05:11 PM
| Politics
October 15, 2003
All the President’s votes?
A quiet revolution is taking place in US politics. By the time it’s over, the integrity of elections will be in the unchallenged, unscrutinised control of a few large – and pro-Republican – corporations. Can democracy in America survive?
Posted by cds at 07:08 PM
| Tech
The Digital Imprimatur
How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle.
Posted by cds at 05:58 PM
| Tech
October 14, 2003
When big media gets bigger
“The effort to reverse the FCC is dead in the water, sinking the democratic process with it.”
Posted by cds at 09:52 PM
| Politics
The Widening Crusade
Bush’s War Plan Is Scarier Than He’s Saying
Posted by cds at 06:11 PM
| Politics
The C++ Style Sweet Spot
A Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup, Part I
Posted by cds at 12:10 AM
| Tech
October 13, 2003
October 10, 2003
Open Source
Why Bush should order his staff to release Novak and other reporters from confidentiality pledges
Posted by cds at 03:09 PM
| Punditry
October 09, 2003
“A true American hero”
Joseph Wilson stood up to Saddam—then to the Bush administration. The man who exposed the president’s bogus uranium claim talks about why he spoke out and the White House’s ugly “revenge” against him and his wife.
Posted by cds at 11:22 PM
| Politics
Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism
A former student remembers a teacher who never stopped raking the worlds of Big Media and technology with his savage wit.
Posted by cds at 11:20 PM
| Culture
October 08, 2003
The moviegoing voter
Millions chose Arnold Schwarzenegger in the hopes of finding a happy ending for California’s woes. But I won’t be sleeping any better.
Posted by cds at 09:02 PM
| Politics
October 07, 2003
The kids are alright
Indie godhead Richard Linklater on teaching fifth-graders to shred for “School of Rock,” the amazing Jack Black and moving from the margins to the mainstream—and back again.
Posted by cds at 11:55 PM
| Culture