Posts Tagged ‘Slate’

The fall of men at the NYRB

Surely #MeToo should also be about educating men in their 60s like Ian Buruma rather than driving them out

What did Nixon really know about Watergate?

Ron Rosenbaum points out Nixon ran the cover up but we still don’t know if he ordered the burglary

What Steve Jobs saw in 1985

The most compelling reason to buy a home computer 27 years ago? The internet.


Hitch 1949-2011

Christopher Hitchens wrote like a polymath on a bender and his bombast was a pure reading pleasure

A landmark moment in Turkey

The decades-long shadow play between the military and the state took a most dramatic turn last week

Was the Egypt revolution a ‘foreseeable surprise’?

Slate says yes, but bungles the argument