Reflections on the death of bin Laden
Osama bin Laden’s death comes at a complicated moment. Our national neuroses were threatening to overwhelm us. We were squabbling and sorry. I don’t know that we should be proud of the past few years.
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Osama bin Laden’s death comes at a complicated moment. Our national neuroses were threatening to overwhelm us. We were squabbling and sorry. I don’t know that we should be proud of the past few years.
When watching Kobe Bryant play basketball, two things immediately become clear to me.
Political fiction is in. Ayn Rand’s grandiloquent “Atlas Shrugged” is receiving a long-awaited cinematic treatment, “O: A Presidential Novel” drew attention and derision in almost-equal proportions, and pundits like Glenn Beck have made their own attempts at writing political novels.
For conservatives, this is a time without heroes.
That power corrupts is one of the oldest truisms of government and society. It’s right, as far as it goes, but it is also incomplete.
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Political campaigns are about narratives.
Spring training baseball, for the uninitiated, is the single best thing about spring in Arizona, and probably any spring, anywhere.
This is the season for irresponsible presidential speculation.
The climate of the next political era will be shaped by one foundational fact: We are out of money. Every decision we make in the next decade will be colored by this knowledge.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., announced Thursday that he will not seek another term in the U.S. Senate.
President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday would have been Sunday. Within this weekend’s celebrations of this much-discussed president was an easily detected note of nostalgia.
Our generation has come of age in an unsettled political moment. As a result, this large, politically interested, socially aware generation has not settled into a predictable role in American politics. This is not yet President Barack Obama’s generation, nor does it belong to Republicans.
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The premise has always been this: To win football games, you have to have a bruising defense, a power running game, and an ability to control the ball and the clock. You win by out-muscling and out-manning the other team. Three yards and a cloud of dust.
Netflix rules the Internet entertainment world. A recent study conducted by Sandvine revealed that 43 percent of peak-time U.S. Internet use comes from streaming video, and just under half of that comes from Netflix.
One of the most fascinating recurring features on Kottke.org, an eclectic compendium of the best writing, thinking, and imagining on the Internet, is one where the site’s author posts strange and evocative photos and videos — a horse pulling an automobile like a carriage, a man on the open water atop an upside-down wooden table with an outboard motor, Darth Vader ringing the opening bell on Wall Street with the tagline “This is a metaphor for something.”
President Bush emerged last week from a two-year hiatus from the spotlight. He did so with apparent hesitance. He has studiously avoided commenting on the job his successor is doing. He seems content to disappear again when he is done publicizing his book. He is wise to do so.
Many Internet fads — the single-serving blog, the YouTube mash-up and commenting “first” on a news story — have passed strangely through American consciousness. Few deserve the attention they receive, but the New York Times, with its online series “Disunion,” has managed to marry the power of old media with the potential of the new and should be a blueprint for traditional media as it grapples with a more difficult era.
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