Recently there has been renewed discussion of Vladimir Nabokov's once scandalous Lolita , thanks to an article in the New York Times by...

May 15, 2010 · As the nation pays not-so-rapt attention to the confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan, how many of you have been thinking that the Dems actually made a huge mistake coming out against Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court? The net result was the seating of Alito, a hard-righter who helped snowball the court's sickening lurch to the looney right. Miers may not have been the brightest bulb in the box, but she might even have had the potential to become something o

August 3, 2009 · I had recently begun arguing to my friends that in fact our problem was not that we were involved in too many wars, but...

August 2, 2009 · Many of my friends are of the “Bush was awful and every single thing he ever did was awful” persuasion. And there’s...

The figures released on Thursday by the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, provided the most detailed accounting yet of Wall Street’s millionaire ranks. In the report, Mr. Cuomo said that 738 bankers and traders at Citigroup took home bonuses of $1 million or more in 2008 even as the bank posted a $27.7 billion loss. In all, Citigroup paid $5.33 billion in bonuses; it received $45 billion in bailout funds.

July 17, 2009 · Subsidize Viagra to ensure quality of life: Swedish court Published: 10 Jul 09 18:40 CET Arguing that having sex is...