Where were you on September 11th?
Mapping where I stood on that day, and where others stood around the world at the same moment
Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war
But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war
The Gaddafi family photo album
Gaddafi made himself a celebrity. Is that why the Times decided to publish his stolen family album?
The wisdom of the New York Times comments section
Times readers know the debt ceiling debate is bogus, but it works on them anyway
Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section
The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene
Norway and the loss of innocence
It was always a myth, a very Norwegian way to boast about their own modesty
Seeing the Ryan Trecartin exhibit at PS1
His tedious stories replicate like fractals in a surfeit of superficially distinct artistic choices
The Times’ Roberta Smith explains Ryan Trecartin’s art
Roberta Smith at least makes a case for Trecartin’s merits, unlike Peter Schjeldahl
How the Osama bin Laden news spread on Twitter
It began with a single tweet, not the first with the news but the most trusted
Reading the Times on the architectural symbolism of Cairo
Much right and a few key things wrong about Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of the revolution
Reading about Sarkozy and French nativists
French cultural insecurity eviscerates the universalism of the Rights of Man
Prospects for social justice and economic reform in Egypt
Why social justice in Egypt demands more economic reform — true reform, this time — not less
Reading ‘How Democracy Became Halal’ op-ed in the Times
What a former CIA Middle East specialist gets wrong in his Times op-ed about the Egypt protests