Not A Smarter Fox News, A Right-Leaning NBC

Over on twitter, Reihan Salam and Patrick Brennan were discussing a Matthew Yglesias post on the Koch brothers’ attempt to buy the Tribune line of newspapers. Yglesias is for it since he thinks that the Koch brothers buying the Tribune papers and turning them into conservative news outlets . . . . Continue Reading »

Sheldon Cooper Literacy

For those who lack the above, let me recommend the informative and intelligent SHELDON COOPER WIKIPEDIA PAGE . It is clearly a labor of love. It is also under review for having too much intricate detail (which would only be of interest to someone who cares about the subject) and for something like . . . . Continue Reading »

Big Bang Studies

So naturally I’m envious that Ken Masugi and John Presnall made major contributions to BIG BANG STUDIES before I could get around to posting on the show. And all I have time to do today is to give some random notes. 1. THE BIG BANG THEORY is a network show. That means the continuity is better . . . . Continue Reading »

Weak In The Tweet

Don’t believe Peter Lawler’s self-deprecation .  He actually has way more twitter followers than I do.  As well he should.  I seem to have lost the ability to write at less than essay(ish) length.  But even if I can’t add much to twitter, I can still enjoy . . . . Continue Reading »

Bazinga!

As the hugely successful CBS sitcom Big Bang Theory moves toward the conclusion of its sixth season, I thought I’d link to Ken Masugi’s recent blog post on the show. In it he relates this intelligent and funny show to some of the philosophic concerns of modernity as discussed in James V. . . . . Continue Reading »

Tweeting as an Art of Writing

So here’s an amusing essay about how to tweet like a Straussian. I would comment more if I were an actual tweeter. It does seem to me that ALL CAPS could become an indispensable form of twitter pithiness. I do have a student—Kristian Canler (Berry name: Christian with a K)—who has . . . . Continue Reading »

Marital Anarchy in the U.K.

Provocative editorial in the American Spectator by Peter Hitchens . Like Ivan Kenneally (see below for his fine piece) although without the modernity-analysis, Hitchens locates the source of the rising anarchy not mainly with the late 80s-to-present advocacy for SSM, but with the way the Sexual . . . . Continue Reading »