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Myers: 1 Oprah: O

September 29, 2010 Culture

On Monday, I blogged about the need for praise when it comes to the arts.  But that’s not to say we don’t also need people willing to tear things into a million pieces when they deserve it.  Someone’s got to tell the emperor that his butt’s hanging out. B.R. Myers of the Atlantic brilliantly does [...]

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Anderson Saves The City

June 10, 2010 politics

Brian Anderson, editor of the remarkable City Journal, (where, remarkably, I’m a contributing editor) has given an excellent and wide-ranging interview  to  the Atlantic.  Conor Friedersdorf (a highly intelligent interviewer who Q&A’d me once a while back) does the honors in a feature called The Future of The City.  The interview, called “Saving The City:  [...]

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