| Jan 8, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyIf you visit the website of Nottoway Plantation, a resort hotel, you’ll see a photo of a half-dozen people dressed in antebellum finery. It’s a plug for Nottoway’s new mystery theater evening: The actors play members of the Randolph family who built...
| | Rights / DemocracyAttention, class. Here’s today’s new word: “Native advertising.” OK, that’s two words. But it’s one concept, and it has nothing to do with indigenous peoples. Rather, it’s a phrase sprung on us by the wonky wordsmiths of...
| Dec 22, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAfter Peter O’Toole died in December, The New York Times gave him a worthy sendoff. The marvelous English actor’s obituary, which began on the front page, ran several thousand words. At the conclusion of its online version the Times ran this addendum:...
| Dec 18, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyHere’s a jarring headline: “Economic Populism Is a Dead End for Democrats.” That’s the title on a recent op-ed piece written by a couple of longtime political flacks for Wall Street and published, naturally, in The Wall Street Journal. Take it...
| Dec 11, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyEveryone seems to agree that Nelson Mandela, like Martin Luther King Jr., is one of the great figures not only of the 20th century but, indeed, of the long trail of history. Here are three lessons we can learn from his amazing life: Lesson 1: There are times when...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe Internet is the world’s largest shopping mall, library, video store, post office and town square. When you turn on your computer, you’re in the driver’s seat, choosing what you want to read, watch, and hear. We owe everything we love about the...
