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February 2015

February 06, 2015

50 Shades of Hitler

Trying to understand this Hindenburg-level PR disaster.

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Tina Brown Didn’t Kill Newsweek

With today's news that Newsweek will officially quit printing at the end of the year,...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

USA! Racists!

Harper's should just give up on covering Republican conventions. It really has no idea how...

August 03, 2012

Shooting Journalists in a Barrel

Yahoo! Sports seriously poses the following question: "[W]hy is the U.S. so dominant in the...

July 2012

July 05, 2012

How to Kill Creationism

In this Splice Today essay, Noah Berlatsky concocts a multiple-choice test: Adam was married to...

July 04, 2012

Fact Checking the Fact Checker

The Washington Post's Fact Checker Glenn Kessler has responded to my last post in comments....

July 03, 2012

Fact Checker Flashback

Glenn Kessler, who writes the Fact Checker blog and column for the Washington Post, has...

June 2012

June 12, 2012

Rhymes With Spigotry

Well, rats. The plan was to cut and paste a definition of "bigotry" from a...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

Hey New Republic, Get Your Act Together

The great critic and historian Paul Fussell died yesterday. Real Clear Books linked to three...