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Prophets of Error
My review of "Future Babble" by Dan Gardner for The Wall Street Journal.
"Readers of the World Unite"
“The whole point of writing literature," says Dale Peck, "was that inexchange for not getting paid a lot of money, you could say whatever you wanted; now, you don’t get a lot of money and you don’t get to say what you want. All of which segues to why writing is f***ed.” The Financial Times
Killer Adjectives
Sensitivities over violent language trip up pols and journalists.
TheAtlantic.com
Grammar and Politics
Jared Loughner, the Arizona Shooter, believed grammar has a politics, so did the author of the first complete grammar of a modern European language.
TheAtlantic.com
Cyber Terror: The New Nukes
A worm in Iran’s nuclear facility. A plane crash in Spain. China’s Web heist. Trevor Butterworth on the high-stakes crimes taking place in the shadows.
The Daily Beast.
Man with a Grand Title
Lunch with Lorin Stein, new editor of the Paris Review for the Financial Times.
A Revolution of the Mind
The Industrial Enlightenment put knowledge in the service of production, changing the course of history; my review of Joel Mokyr's "The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850"for the Wall Street Journal
The Openness Elixir
Book review of "Wrong" and "The Rational Optimist" for the Wall Street Journal.
The Wrong Way to Get to Green
Book review of "Power Hungry" by Robert Bryce for the Wall Street Journal.
Catastrophe Keeps Coming
Book reviewof "Mega Disasters" by Florin Diacu for theWall Street Journal.
Taxes: the new 'expert' quack cure
Op ed in New York Post.
Swept by confusion: Twitter and the tide of revolution
Ourblook.
Case of Chemophobia
National Post (with S. Robert Lichter)
How the other half lived
Financial Times, on Carl Bernstein
Reading the Reich
Interview with Tim Ryback about his book on Hitler's library for Bookforum.
Here's the Prius election - a hybrid of new and old media Financial Times
Prevarication Nation
Review of "The Ethics of the Lie" for Bookforum.
Lunch with the FT - David Remnick
Interview with the editor of the New Yorker on his tenth anniversary at the magazine.
A Critic of Sublime Ferocity - Financial Times
Interview with the New Yorker's James Wood.
Stop, Stop Shopping - Financial Times
A profile of the Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
The Irony of My Life - Financial Times
Interview with Louis Auchincloss.
Fifteen People Who Changed The World - Forbes.com
Dandy with a taste for literary spats - Financial Times
Interview with Tom Wolfe.
The Luxury Lap: Cartier Love with Sarah Jessica Parker and Spike Lee
There was dash, there was swoon, there was confusion and there was envy. But how could there not be on "declare your love" day?
The Luxury Lap: A Portrait of Princess Margaret
Debut column as luxury goods correspondent for the New York Observer.
Untold Tales - Washington Post Book World
A master of the New Journalism looks back at his years of reporting and writing.
Time for the Last Post - Financial Times
Is blogging really an information revolution? Is it about to drive the mainstream news media into oblivion? Or is it just another crock of virtual gold - a meretricious equivalent of all those noisy Internet start-ups that were going to build a brave "new economy" a few years ago? (The Financial Times Magazine also created a temporary blog to discuss the issues raised by this story.)
Pause Celebre - Financial Times
Carlyle's sumptuous prose was rich with them; Evelyn Waugh's fluid reveries depended on them. The semicolon can be as subtle as a breath - so why do Americans hate it so much?
Stylo Gurus - Financial Times
Long since obsolete, fountain pens are now fetishized as a
symbol of luxury as today's craftsmen rediscover the lost art of creating the ultimate writing experience.
Shock Waves - Financial Times
Fears that a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands could send a 25-meter-high tsunami crashing into the US coast have been gaining momentum. But rival scientists dismiss theprediction as a hugely unlikely worst-case scenario.
The Idiot Box - Financial Times
When Americans vote for the president their decision will affect the rest of the world, which makes their ignorance all the more alarming. TV must rise above sound bites and start informing.
Diary of a Madman - Washington Post Book World
An underachiever discovers art behind bars - review of Call Me The Breeze by Patrick McCabe.
Bouncing Back - Washington Post Book World
Review of A Girl Could Stand Up by Leslie Marshall.
Mother Tongues - Washington Post Book World
Review of The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton.
A Genius for Living - Washington Post Book World
Review of The Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Irish Pastoral - Washington Post Book World
Review of At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill.
Rainbow's End - Washington Post Book World
Review of Coloring the News - How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism by William McGowan.
Look Who's Talking - Washington Post Book World
Review of The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller.
Not The Time to Cry Censorship - Salon
Of course the public wants to censor journalists. And the media should try to understand why.
No Facts, Please We're British - Salon
Americans are flocking to feisty British papers for news about the war. But there's a reason the U.S. media fails to follow up on the Brit's "scoops" - they're frequently not true.
The Press Spins Self-Serving Myths - Los Angeles Times
Journalists take it as an article of faith that they can be trusted to inform the public without damaging the war effort.
Adler Agonistes - newswatch.org
Former New Yorker writer Renata Adler claimed that Watergate judge John Sirica had ties to the mob.
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