The absentee ballots have arrived at my house, and I’m voting for Barack Obama. Please stick with me for a few minutes while I take a little detour to tell you why. A friend sent me a link recently to an extremely interesting piece in Wired. Clive Thompson writes about an Australian philosopher who has …
Yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air, culture critic John Powers offered his list of 2006’s defining cultural moments. What struck me about many of them was their similarity: deducing 2006’s essential character from Powers’ list, you’d have to say that stateside, it’s been a year of culture clash. Half of Powers’ dozen or so items comprised …