“It’s a TV channel aimed mainly at millennials, whose only real guiding rule is that it’s going to stay away from anything conventional….So here’s the idea: let’s say we can serve up high-quality Fusion-branded content to a new generation of digital natives…. Here’s where things start getting really cool. ” — Felix Salmon. The whole piece is like some […]
Continue reading →I apologize in advance, because I am going to talk about a piece that I have not yet read. To be clear, I do not intend to read Megan McArdle’s “Piketty’s Tax Hikes Won’t Help the Middle Class.” I’m afraid that I can’t wait to weigh in — not on the review itself, but on […]
Continue reading →So this may get my Hater Card revoked, but I actually have found a lot to like about the early days of Vox. There have been some really good pieces on there– I liked the Passover explainer, and Yglesias’s distillation of Pikkety’s Capital in the 21st Century was well done, and an example of how that type […]
Continue reading →One of the traditional, fundamental political divides between the left and the right has been the question of rights and ability, the question of positive rights. Conservatives have tended to endorse only negative rights, while liberals have endorsed a more expansive vision of positive rights. Healthcare is a prime example. Conservatives have long reacted to […]
Continue reading →“Bowers writes that Perkins always wanted someone different. Bowers writes, ‘He always wanted someone different.’ “ — Claire Pires, “22 Rumors, Orgies, And Relationships From The Golden Age Of Gay Hollywood,” Buzzfeed
Continue reading →Remember how everybody thought that Kim Jong Un fed his uncle to rabid dogs, and they all had a good time working themselves into a frenzy about it? And remember how that wasn’t true, and everybody was like, boy we sure were stupid then! Remember how weeks later, everybody thought that everyone in North Korea […]
Continue reading →Here we go again. Devin Faraci is one of my favorite film writers. He really has a wonderful sensibility, a kind of grumpy enthusiasm for movies and tons of experience that really shows up in his writing. In a world of film criticism where anybody with a broadband account can (and probably has) given you […]
Continue reading →“I haven’t read any superhero comics since I finished with Watchmen. I hate superheroes. I think they’re abominations. They don’t mean what they used to mean. They were originally in the hands of writers who would actively expand the imagination of their nine- to 13-year-old audience. That was completely what they were meant to do and they were doing it […]
Continue reading →Salon has been kind enough to print (and pay me for) an essay I’ve written about neoconservatism in the post-Bush world. Please read it if you’re inclined.
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