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David Pogue and the Gray Lady’s Double Standard
In a post on Saturday, the NYTPicker, a website devoted to “the goings-on inside the New York Times,” pointed to the recent firing of Mary Tripsas, who was let go after writing a positive column just...
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Paul Fischer: The Unpardonable Hack Who Charmed His Fellow Junketeers
There was once a time — before the Internet, or perhaps not at all — in which film critics conducted themselves with something approximating journalistic standards. It was never very much. These were,...
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Steve Weinberg, Russell Carollo, and Christopher Szecheny — Scientology’s...
In today’s Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports the alarming news that three “journalists” — Steve Weinberg, Russell Carollo, and Christopher Szecheny — were paid money by the Church of Scientology to...
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Galleygate: Open Questions to Stephen Elliott
Since my critical comment in response to the Rumpus Book Club is “awaiting moderation,” I thought I would reproduce it here: Since nobody here has the balls to ask important questions (and I fully...
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Can a $900 Handgun Change Your Life? Yes!
When you first buy an HK45, the Ferrari of handguns, two thoughts are likely to pass through your mind. The first is “Can I really kill people now in a reckless and irresponsible way?” And the second...
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Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials
“I just expect more from life. Seriously, it’s like I want every day to be exciting! And scary! And a rollercoaster of creative experience, as if I’m making a new life for myself in France.” — Hannah,...
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The Journalist and the Murderer (Modern Library Nonfiction #97)
(This is the fourth entry in The Modern Library Nonfiction Challenge, an ambitious project to read and write about the Modern Library Nonfiction books from #100 to #1. There is also The Modern Library...
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4. Loopholes (The Gray Area)
As a thriving empire faces war with ferocious barbarians, a mischievous scholar named Minerva hopes to bring law and civilization to a great realm populated by talking birds, giant rats, gregarious...
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A Special Message from James Bennet
Hello there! James Bennet here. You may know me as that fun-loving xenophobic paycheck man who, despite never taking a meaningful moral position in my entire life, fell upward thanks to my vanilla...
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