How you read, Alice Munro writes, and war comes home
Here are three of the five items on today’s edition of my semi-regular “Read 2 of these and call me in the morning” mailing. The life, death, and resurrection o...
Category: War
Is SCOTUS’s gambit to wreck healthcare unprecedented?
Linda Greenhouse says it is — and that next to SCOTUS’s decision to put Obamacare on the choppping block, Bush v. Gore was nothing. There was no urgency. There ...
Read Two: Data-crunching murderous misogyny, Kasparov loses, Shark Week is shit
Data Scientists Are Uncovering War Crimes in Syria. By Lorenzo-Frencheschi-Biccierai. Although the war in Syria is essentially too dangerous for journalists or ...
Philip Seymour Hoffman says goodbye
As David Denby notes in a satisfying review, “A Most Wanted Man,” made from the John le Carre film of the same title, makes an apt goodbye from Philip Seymour H...
Read Two: Severed heads, runaway PR, math gender, minimalism
How to Take a Picture of a Severed Head Or not. IS is working very hard to manage its media presence, and it’s working. By Sebastian Meyer and Alicia P.Q. Whitm...
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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman
My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...
Can Bergdahl’s statements in therapy be used against him?
That’s what this story from the LA Times appears to say. If that’s true, seems something is amiss. Surely a POW being debriefed has some a right to ...
War-Torn: CBS Reporter Cami McCormick’s Latest Story About Combat and Its Aftermath is Her Own | People & Politics | Washingtonian
Usually it’s a reporter writing about a wounded soldier. This time, in the Washingtonian, Iraq-war veteran-turned-writer Alex Horton writes about a fearso...