From wiretapping to letter-opening
Just before Xmas, Bush issued another signing statement, this time “declar[ing] his right to open people’s mail under emergency conditions.” See also.
Just before Xmas, Bush issued another signing statement, this time “declar[ing] his right to open people’s mail under emergency conditions.” See also.
Seventy years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop wrote to Marianne Moore from a fishing camp in south Florida.
The distributor for 150 independent presses has filed for Chapter 11. See also: the fallout.
“For a long time I have been saying that actually reading books is overrated. Now I have an unlikely ally: librarians.”
In the current New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell proffers what he calls (at his blog) a “semi-defense of Enron.” Insofar as “defense” implies an argument or justification for something, the article is nothing of the kind. Rather, it is a perfect specimen of the sort of fuzzy-headed, attention-mongering contrarianism that frequently pops up at Slate, and that has, for the past . . .