Today on the Dish, Andrew piled on David Mamet for his veil of ignorance regarding guns, crime and Hobbes. He took the temperature of America’s economy with Bartlett and Collender, sized up Obama’s (mostly) conservative foreign-policy credentials and noticed a Dish shout-out da Italia. Meanwhile, Andrew asked for some transparency from the anti-Hagel crowd, remained … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
Below are our posts examining the inclusion of torture in the plot of the film Zero Dark Thirty, including a much commentary from Andrew, his review of the film, and coverage of the film’s accuracy and how much involvement the CIA may have had in its making. Mon Dec 10, 2012 – 12.16pm: Kathryn Bigelow, … Continue reading The Meaning Of Zero Dark Thirty’s Torture
Fran Abrams ponders the increasing anxiety about the children in our midst: The endless fretting – about abuse, about unhealthy lifestyles, educational underachievement, criminality – is in fact fuelled by fear of the unknown. Everyone assumes that his own family is doing a good job . . . but is someone else sneaking rotten apples into … Continue reading Consider The Children
Paula Marantz Cohen wonders why her college students are always reminiscing fondly about their childhoods:
My students are still children. Yet they have been prematurely stressed by life—or at least, by the prospect of life—and are already missing simpler times. I ascribe this to the difficult job market and to the expense of a college education, which makes many of these students feel that they must succeed. But I also think it has to do with a parenting style that preceded the recession. The extreme parenting that began some 30 years ago—where parents became invested to an unprecedented degree in realizing their children’s fullest potential—made those children more anxious about failure. Parents lavished so much time and money on them that it raised the stakes on their achievement. Thus, the very childhood which these students miss so much may also be where the seeds of their anxiety—and hence of their current nostalgia—were planted.
The above graph illustrates a survey of 100 weekday attendees of the newly reopened McCarren pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn:
I'm sitting here, after renting a tux and grabbing a sandwich at Starbucks, and realize I just posted a brief note on the fifth state in the US to grant marriage equality. As if this were now routine. As if it were no big deal. As if what was only recently a pipe-dream hasn't become … Continue reading The Maine Event
