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Editor's Letter: Left, right, and nowhere
feature If it’s true we get the media we deserve, what does it say about us that good old reliable, earnest CNN is in a tailspin?
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Editor's Letter: Cape Wind
feature We’d all like to believe we arrive at our political positions through careful, dispassionate analysis, but the truth is that they are often the product of naked self-interest, tribal identification, and/or gut-deep prejudices.
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Editor's Letter: Do Americans have a right to medical care?
feature Once you endow citizens with certain inalienable rights, you set in motion a process that’s hard to stop.
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Editor's Letter: The upside to creative destruction
feature For music fans, there is an upside to creative destruction. On a Woodstock stage recently, I watched a friend stretch her lungs in some of the open space left by the industry’s retreat.
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Editor's Letter: If the Tea Party were black
feature For the sake of this exercise, imagine that members of Congress in March had been surrounded by thousands of angry African-Americans, yelling insults at white, Southern politicians.
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Editor's Letter: A mosque near the World Trade Center
feature As arguments raged over the location of mosques in New York and around the country, I thought of Jack Morgan and his predetermined ideas about who was responsible for the 1920 Wall Street blast that killed 38 and injured hundreds.
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Editor's Letter: Christopher Hitchens confronts cancer
feature Suddenly faced with mortality, Hitchens has begun his last assignment, explaining in his droll, sharply observed prose his “deportation” to the land of the gravely sick.
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Editor's Letter: A hunger for heroes
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Editor's Letter: “I hope he fails”
feature When ideology leads people to hope for the worst
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Taking care of their own
feature People have an instinct to take care of their own, but depending on the circumstances, this bit of human nature can be problematic and even scandalous.
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Editor's Letter: A new era of “duck and cover”
feature Decades of living under nuclear threat during the Cold War fostered a fatalism that tempered the jitters and allowed us to laugh in the face of existential peril. Will we someday muster a similarly cheeky response to the era of color-coded alarms
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Editor's Letter: Our country’s future
feature Do we accept painful tax increases at virtually every level of income—or do we drastically reduce our ambitions, and our expectations?
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