Taking Tea with Ayn Rand

Gary Weiss explores Objectivism’s influence on contemporary politics

By Daniel Luzer   Mar 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM

Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul | By Gary Weiss | St Martin’s Press | 304 pages,... More

Babel

Robert Lane Greene on why language is always, and never, in decline

By Daniel Luzer   Mar 31, 2011 at 01:09 PM

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity | by Robert Lane Greene |... More

Pretty Pictures, Hard Times

A look back at the illustrated magazines of the 1840s

By Daniel Luzer   Feb 10, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s by Cynthia Lee Patterson | University Press of Mississippi... More

The Power of the Drones

Inside Slate’s efforts to crowdsource good ideas

By Daniel Luzer   Nov 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM

People have to be damn committed to an idea to attend an event about it on a Monday night, even... More

Stung Out

By Daniel Luzer   May 25, 2010 at 04:24 PM

Apparently now that the is-she-actually-a-lesbian discussion has been ruled dilatory, journalists have decided to focus on the one kinda minority... More

Dominick Dunne, Done

Celebrity journalism matters, sometimes

By Daniel Luzer   Sep 3, 2009 at 07:00 AM

Quite possibly the person most bothered by the death of Edward M. Kennedy last week was celebrity crime writer and... More

We Heart the Vineyard

By Daniel Luzer   Aug 14, 2009 at 05:51 PM

So apparently Barack Obama is going to spend a week at the end of this month in Martha's Vineyard. This... More

Depression Shopping

By Daniel Luzer   Aug 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM

As surely everyone knows by now, America is deep in the throes of a recession. But no matter how dire... More

The Magazinist

Close reading the July 2009 issue of Reason

By Daniel Luzer   Jul 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM

Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. Discovering Japan The cover story... More

The Magazinist

Close reading the May 2009 issue of The American Prospect

By Daniel Luzer   May 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM

Every now and then, CJR’s Magazinist delivers an opinionated look at the journals of opinion. The main cover line of... More

Wish He Was a Baller

Friedman fumbles with last-minute call for a carbon tax

By Daniel Luzer   Apr 16, 2009 at 08:39 AM

As virtually all of America knows by now, Tom Friedman is a big environmentalist. He loves nature, green things, responsible... More

Class Dismissed

The ‘populist’ case against cap-and-trade is absurd

By Daniel Luzer   Apr 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM

Historian John Steele Gordon, writing on Barack Obama’s economic policies in the April issue of Commentary, says that the president's... More

Mission Accomplished?

Why the AFT’s compromise won’t end the education wars

By Daniel Luzer   Mar 26, 2009 at 04:04 PM

Perhaps because it is inherently a little dull, the world of education policy likes to liven up its policy disputes... More

Baby Elephants

What’s with all these really young GOP pundits?

By Daniel Luzer   Mar 12, 2009 at 03:49 PM

On February 27, 2009, attendees at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference were addressed by Jonathan Krohn,... More

Defining “Middle Class”

Joe Biden and the White House Task Force on the Middle Class

By Daniel Luzer   Feb 5, 2009 at 02:05 PM

In the midst of the debates leading up to the recent presidential election, the governor of Alaska said something to... More

Colorblind at The New York Times

Blue Room, Green Room, what’s the difference?

By Daniel Luzer   Jan 21, 2009 at 01:58 PM

In today's New York Times, Deborah Needleman has an interesting, if sort of fluffy, column about how the Obamas should... More