That's the way Slate — displaying the winners of its design-a-$1-trillion-coin contest — refers to the symbolism here: "Surprising...
She writes about herself in the second person saying things like: You have read Adorno. You are able to think critically about your desire ...
"... and encourage a culture that funnels the countless unwanted or retired horses to riding farms where emotionally or physically dist...
In the previous post , I was writing about women who need to be "continually push[ed] to value their insights," and it came out as...
"... a restless, grumbling, needy presence that once functioned in the collective mind as an early warning system, an inner voice that ...
"The pillow, she said, had always been a woman to her and the upright wooden back a man. Thus she wanted—by magic, we must interpolate—...
"Freud’s disciples linked it to repressed sexuality."
"... were not embarrassed about rhapsodizing over their 'darling mama,' carrying her picture with them to work or war." Th...
I love the Skeptoid podcast , and it was a big thrill to talk to Brian Dunning . Topics: Lost cosmonauts and shortwave-radio spies (04:01) W...
Freud, from a book of aphorisms that I've been reading, very slowly, for years. Collected and categorized by W.H. Auden (and some other ...
Christina Reihill writes: While the idea of the modern man as a hairless metrosexual more interested in manicures than motors challenges my ...
Writes TNR's Michael Crowley , adding that "[t]he more liberal among them are a little panicked." Crowley also talks about how...
Jodi Kantor writes in a long NYT piece about Obama's superhuman transcendence of emotion for the sake of political triumph: He does not...
Boggle fans may like this. (And I know the proposed vandalism relates to the "B" in Obama, not the "M," but I'm not ...
Kimberly A. Strassel looks for weakness in Hillary Clinton's campaign: Mr. Obama has come the closest to delving into Mrs. Clinton'...
Hey, it's mainstream media! It's Us Magazine. If it offends you, don't read on. I haven't been talking about "crotchgat...
(Or whatever it's called.) In the WSJ: Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable "thir...
This makes no sense at all. The man is so fat he's immobilized, which means someone has to be procuring the food for him. He weighs 550...
That's what an agent wrote to lawprof Jed Rubenfeld when he proposed to write a book about law for laypersons, according to this big NYT...
Blogging about "The Apprentice" last night , I happened to write, "The Synergy folk are pushing manicures and massages -- you...
