Month: December 2013

I agree with Noz that the U.K. shouldn’t posthumously pardon Alan Turing for his homosexuality without also pardoning every other Brit who was treated as a criminal under that statute. But pardoning everyone is a better...

There needs to be a left-wing response to the growing income inequality (The Great Bifurcation, as Jon Evans puts it) or the outcome will be a right-wing response. And the right, worldwide and throughout history, only knows one...

If there were an award for writing the nastiest column of the year, I think Andrea Peyser would walk away with the 2013 version. It’s well-written, almost epic in its brutality, but one wonders what the point is. Why so...

One of my stepsons works at a pizza shop. Today he discovered that he didn’t like greeting customers with “Happy Holidays” because it feels coerced and politically correct, so he spent the last two hours of his...

I can’t argue with Mike Allen topping Alex Pareene’s annual hack list but the actual article isn’t any more readable than Allen’s PLAYBOOK. Also, in reality, I can argue with Mr. Allen topping the list...