June 2011
40 posts
“Some philosophers and psychiatrists have suggested that we are investing our...”
– Ethan Watters
“While some militia leaders have told their troops to dig in, others have...”
– Guardian. Why would Qaddhafi’s allies defect—why would Qaddhafi want to ‘seek sanctuary in a friendly African country’, as one of the Guardian’s sources mockery-makingly puts it—if they all know that it’s on these contingencies that our ‘hopes’...
“I get these feelings when I see or read or hear things, like a sense of being...”
– Emmy the Great
“When order breaks down and institutions fail in multiconfessional, multiethnic...”
– Larison
“The thing is that nobody becomes a writer because of his or her tremendous ease...”
– Elif Batuman
“These people have not been restored to a time before shame, but reduced to a...”
– Morgan Meis
“The worst part, though, is that none of it means anything. If you live forever...”
– Ned Resnikoff puts me in mind of ‘Dinosaur Sex’
“By accepting the utilisation of the crisis to prevent a robust discussion at the...”
– Yanis Varoufakis
“As local bookstores have given way to megastores, megastores have given way to...”
– Larry Summers
“Earlier in the interview she’s going on about Ludwig Von Mises and Milton...”
– Yglesias on Bachmann
“The new market metaphors, detached from history, institutions, and power,...”
– Scott Spillman on Daniel T. Rodgers
“the most sincerely disinterested acts may be those best corresponding to...”
– Bourdieu via
“… he was troubled by this, suspecting that his thoughts and intentions, at...”
– Tao Lin, whom I think I’m persuaded by
“The wave of occupations at the end of 2010 left us up to our throats in the...”
– Escalate
“While the idea of “not raising the debt ceiling” polls pretty well, the reality...”
– John Quiggin
“I identified a feeling that I wanted to turn into a song: that there is a world...”
– Emmy the Great puts me in mind of Fr. Christopher Devlin
“Nothing had, unagonisingly, and precisely because it was uncareful and...”
– Timothy Thornton, conjectural transcription
“Humans are good at solving problems; they have boundless creativity and...”
– ‘Personally, I’d go for choice three’, writes Larry Elliott, and if ‘boundless … ingenuity’ is his punt at salvation, we’re pretty stuck. Elliott’s vision of a plausible reprieve in this column represents a conjunction of two dogmas characteristic of...
“Infamous will in fact now serve as the reigning shibboleth […]. Anyone who...”
– Amis who if he would think rather than semaphoring his supremacy would maybe allow that, before dictionaries, language was people speaking—sometimes writing—mutually intelligibly but differently every one, and, after dictionaries, all of which deeply imperfectly capture the expressive...
“As NATO bombs fall on Tripoli, Colonel Qaddafi is discovering that he needs to...”
– Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
“She talked to anybody and everybody that came into her orb.”
– Rush Limbaugh
“The biggest danger remains prolonged semi-stagnation in the post-crisis era, not...”
– Wolf, who doesn’t it seems answer his own question about ‘what policy can do in response to [the] difficult circumstances’ consisting in ‘the rising impact of emerging giants on global commodity demand’
“It’s one of the odd features of race in American culture that we’re...”
– Adam Serwer
“Where the legalization of assisted suicide is concerned, then, the question...”
– Douthat
“There’s a risk, if you concentrate too much on economic growth and too little on...”
– Felix Salmon
“If disembodied, is he unmanned? His idea of heaven is not wings’ flutter...”
– John Updike
“How quickly, in the dim Cineplex of recall, the associations rose and passed!”
– Wallace doing Updike
“The vast region of boreal Canada where the tar sands are found is an even bigger...”
– Bill McKibben
“Even in supposedly successful places like Nawa, also in Helmand, the Marines...”
– Joshua Foust
“Our broadly political commitments reverberate even in our judgments about the...”
– Wilkinson
“It is like an ever-burning fire of our memories, gleefully growing as we toss...”
– Jason Scott
“Who would pay £18,000 a year to listen to this outdated Victorian rationalism...”
– Eagleton
“Facebook offers a space akin to the fast-fashion retailer’s changing room for...”
– Rob Horning
“On The 4D View, objects are to be thought of as four-dimensional “space-time...”
– Ned Markosian
“This book, all as easy on ear and mind as its opening, is really the sheerest...”
– Lachlan Mackinnon
“Often I think my defiance is just delusional, self-glorifying bullshit that...”
– Wesley Yang
“The last time I cried in a movie for a reason other than psychological torture...”
– Moe Tkacik
“the ultimate goal of technology […] is to replace a natural world that’s...”
– Franzen
“A euro in a Greek bank is today no longer the same as a euro in a German bank.”
– Wolf
May 2011
46 posts
“There is no single vision to the Arab Spring, and the places where the risings...”
– George Friedman
“It’s near impossible for any notion of Doomsday to have real purchase in a...”
– Evan Calder Williams
“Science has great authority in the modern world, and rightly so. But if it is...”
– Kenan Malik
“Scandalous as it may sound to the ears of Republicans schooled in Reaganomics,...”
– Francis Fukuyama
“In creating, or abetting, chaotic conditions, it becomes necessary to intervene...”
– Jacob Heilbrunn 