In Praise of Folly

At halftime of the first leg of the UCL qualifying tie against Fenerahce, Arsene Wenger and the squad must have felt good about their domin...

It appears large swaths of the right are in the process of abandoning the accountability and choice movement that Bush brought to fruition ...

Even with all the doom and gloom I have been spouting for the past several weeks, I am still a Gooner through and through and was hoping to...

After missing out on Luis Gustavo for sure, and with news that Arteta could be out for up to six weeks, I felt the need to...

Last season ended on a false high, as the Gunners pulled off an escape by finishing strongly and securing fourth place b...

I think this is the way a lot of us see Obama capitalizing on the mandate given to him by the people in the last election ...

I thought I would return to educational rhetoric today, as yet another example of faulty reasoning appears to have left the keyboard of CNN...

Policymakers are always looking for models and best practices that work. Building on the successful work of others in trying to address top...

When I sat down to watch Compliance (2012, Zobel), I remembered hearing something about the film but had no idea what to e...

What do a hippo, a rat and a weasel have in common? Well, they are all leading candidates in an early poll of potential 2016 Republican Pre...

We live in cynical times, as Jerry Maguire once noted – before voicing his Lacanian dream of completeness ( You Tube Clip ). The American D...

The short story writer George Saunders gave a great graduation speech at Syracuse University this year (full transcript  here ). Here are s...

In the next few days, we should learn the fate of a number of Major League Baseball stars, implicated in using illegal steroids and other t...

Two stories out today in Salon point to the growing disparity between average Americans and the Masters of the Universe (aka leaders of inv...

For a time, Joseph Shumpeter’s idea of  creative destruction  was all the rage in business meetings across the country. I'm not sure if...

I promised to write less about Arsenal during the summer break, but us Gooners again find ourselves on the cusp of major depression. The si...