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Andy Revkin of the New York Times‘s Dot Earth blog is O.K. with the processed beef scrap filler known as “pink slime”, and he thinks you should be O.K. with it too.

China Miéville’s lament of the cruelties of British justice in the aftermath of the London riots, says Theodore Dalrymple, is the product of a ”typical intellectual whose indifference to the actual lives of the urban poor masquerades as compassion for them.”

As the elderly population is exploding across the country, so too in prisons, where dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are on the rise. Who’s to care for them? Fellow inmates serving life terms.

On behalf of the Hungarian Government, Dr. Zoltán Kovács sent the AI a reply to Francis Fukuyama’s “What’s Wrong with Hungary?” Dr. Kovács’s letter occasioned a few thoughts on public communications from Andras Simonyi, the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from … Continue reading →

Samuel Beckett’s letters reveal why he decided to write in French, but his explanation of Waiting for Godot is as cryptic as the play itself.

A cornerstone of the movement to de-institutionalize eldercare is new nursing home design. Unsurprisingly, to bring individuality and domestic comfort to assisted living, smaller is better.

In India, sex-selective abortion has so skewed gender ratios that young men increasingly find it impossible to marry. As the nuclear family falls out of reach, large groups of unmarried men live and work together in an extended brotherhood. A … Continue reading →

One might think that, after bouts of writer’s block and barely-met deadlines, an author’s book tour might be a relaxing victory lap. For some, it’s the most punishing part of the publishing process.

How did a solar panel manufacturer burn through half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds in two years? The scandalizing answer puts paid to the Obama Administration’s green jobs politics.

Some (mostly liberal) commentators have denounced the Norway shootings as an act of xenophobic outrage at multiculturalism. But their interpretation may have it exactly backward.

After a decade-long silence, Whit Stillman, whose comedies of manners garnered a cult following for their droll wit and old-fashioned sensibility, will release a new film this year. Here, a primer on the singular Stillman style.