Get Your New “New Atlantis”

May 9, 2013

The latest issue of The New Atlantis is out and I’m reminded again of how bad-ass this magazine is. Jason Pontin, the editor of MIT Technology Review, calls it the “best conservative publication in America.” True dat. For my money, it’s one of the three best journals being published. Full-stop. If you’re not splurging for the $24 a [...]

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PSA

May 9, 2013

The CGC just announced that they’ve modified their grading policy on comics which have had some cellophane tape applied to them. I don’t want to oversell this, but it just might blow. Your. Mind.

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Dodged a Bullet

May 6, 2013

And to think, this could have been me.

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Report from a “Catholic Researcher”

May 6, 2013

This entire thing–from the bio to the headshot to the epigraph to the protest-stunt to the comments–is absolutely priceless. Maybe the purest essay-length distillation of liberal impulse I’ve ever seen. Update: It’s possible I just carried away. Because here’a another contender: Hey pro-choice friends! Don’t embrace this feminist movie because the director is a known associate of [...]

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Speaking of Coming Out . . .

May 6, 2013

So I’m reading the letters page on Hawkeye #9, because who doesn’t read the letters page? And it turns out that Jason Collins isn’t the only former Stanford big man to let out a secret about his private life recently! It turns out that Brook Lopez is a big fan of comic books. Big. Fan. Draws his [...]

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Trick Question

May 3, 2013

Byron York goes and plays with the numbers and makes a case that relatively few people have said out loud since November. Here’s the question: You’re Mitt Romney and it’s October 31, 2012 and a witch comes to you and says, “I can help you win 72 percent of the Hispanic vote or give you [...]

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#slatepitches

May 3, 2013

In defense of Krypto.

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Howard Kurtz and the Daily Beast

May 2, 2013

I have no special affection for Howard Kurtz nor antipathy toward the Daily Beast—I like them both fine. But the news that Kurtz was fired for making a mistake about Saint Jason Collins struck me as really, really weird. Because for a long while the Beast frequently ran pieces from Scott Horton that turned out to be riddled [...]

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Joel Engel FTMFW

May 1, 2013

This story is classic. Even once you realize where it’s headed it’s just awesome.

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TNG Trivia

April 30, 2013

Let’s be honest: Neither of us is actually going to sit through the recently-released Star Trek: The Next Generation DVDs, no matter how much we want to. We don’t have time and, despite appearances, we still have some dignity. Fortunately, AICN has done it for us. And they’ve helpfully pulled all the good nuggets from the [...]

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Least. Effective. Threat. Ever.

April 30, 2013

“If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit” Because, you know, the want ads are chock-effing-full of media jobs. Heck, I hear that the Atlantic Monthly–one of the most august publications in America–is desperate for content. Just so long as the writers don’t need to get paid. But the best part of this headline [...]

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The Great Christine Rosen Is BACK

April 30, 2013

Over at The New Atlantis with a deeply-engaged review of Evgeny Morozov’s The Save Everything Click Here. Her essay is, as you’d expect, a pretty good discussion-starter on Morozov and the world of techno-utopianism. Sample awesome: In Buddhist philosophy, people are encouraged to embrace discomfort and inconvenience as important aspects of a fully lived life. But most people [...]

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