Having spent our glorious university years in Washington D.C., my friends and I recently decided to reconvene in the U.S. capital for a walk down memory lane. We met at the newest Kimpton Hotel: the...
Did I seriously just write the above headline? Heath Ledger was? He was? People die young all the time. There's nothing new under the sun, and tragic death in one's prime is no exception. In many...
It seems that everyone with wheels in Kyiv went up the Carpathian mountains to celebrate the New Year. Sitting by the fireplace in a log cabin at the ski resort this season would have been something,...
The following is an interview with Justin Rivenbark - artist, and founder of the Rootist Movement. In the interest of full disclosure, Justin and I went to high school together. I was one of the...
We, the Scatterbrains, unfocused, unrestrained, Random in our pattern, dispersed throughout that Critical Mass—that info-terrain, That moves our thought like a manic nymph train— Our station is...
Wherein lies the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination? Common wisdom holds that the implications surrounding the demise of one of Pakistan’s major democratic leaders are tragic. Others hold...
This is a review of Zachary Karabell's People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West. John Murray. 2007. In Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, the author envisioned...
One World, Many Bags Lost - Should be the new British Airways tagline, as far as I'm concerned. Every year, 10% of bags on average get lost or delayed by the airlines. BA seemed to have a good track...
Election 2008 is bound to be somewhat of a disappointment, regardless of the possible outcome. This isn't meant as an insult toward the candidates, many of whom are interesting people, but toward our...
This is a review of Avi Shlaim's Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace. Allen Lane. 2007. Many volumes on the lives of Israeli and Palestinian politicians, and their involvement...
