J. Bryan Lowder tries to disentangle the Boy Scouts from any notion of sexual orientation: Being a gay Eagle Scout produces a strange kin...

Alan Brinkley thinks that the word 'liberal' has made a comeback .

Four more years .

Peter Aspden tried downloading a movie onto his iPhone. He wasn't impressed : It is one of the most famous one-liners in the histo...

Rebecca Ariel Porte reviews Our Aesthetic Categories : “Interesting” is an aesthetic judgment so mild and so commonplace that it barely s...

I'm taking a break from blogging until next weekend, as I'm sitting exams next week. It's not ideal to be absent during this imp...

Tuesday  on the Report, we explored the question of whether or not the debates actually matter. I agreed that they mean more for Romney. I...

The historian H.W. Brands takes a sympathetic view of Ulysses S. Grant, typically the leading contender for the title: The standard rap...

Paul Krugman is pissed about dishonest claims by Mitt Romney about what is and isn't covered under his healthcare plan: What Mr. Romn...

Noam Chomsky can think of a couple .

Benjamin Kunkel reviews Slavoj Žižek's strange critique of capitalism.

Lewis Lapham, learned and eloquent as always, takes on everything that's wrong with American democracy and America itself ("a repu...

In tragic Greek theatre, the thing every protagonist has in common is social status. Since the genre depends on the notion of a fall, it...

Consider it : Culture, as Clifford Geertz said, is the web on which we human animals live, and increasingly that web is, for many of us, a...