In case you don’t know, Glenn Reynolds is the biggest sole proprietor in the political blogosphere. By day a mild-mannered law professor in Knoxville, Tenn., when he walks into the Internet phone booth, he emerges as Instapundit, a.k.a. the Blogfather, blogdom’s “all-powerful hit king.” On his site, instapundit.com, Mr. Reynolds posts his thoughts on a Read More
In case you don’t know, Glenn Reynolds is the biggest sole proprietor in the political blogosphere. By day a mild-mannered law professor in Knoxville, Tenn., when he walks into the Internet phone booth, he emerges as Instapundit, a.k.a. the Blogfather, blogdom’s “all-powerful hit king.” On his site, instapundit.com, Mr. Reynolds posts his thoughts on a Read More
Conclusive proof of Google’s ascendancy, according to received wisdom, is the fact that its name has become a verb. Becoming a noun, like Jell-O or Kleenex, is so 20th-century. A verb is unprecedented! A company with a trademark verb could practically Xerox money for its shareholders—it could Hoover up dollars.
And not just dollars: “Germans Read More
One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In, by Walter Shapiro. Public-Affairs, 215 pages, $26.
With fewer than 90 days until the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the blob of TV cameras and political reporters that quadrennially descends on the two first-in-the-nation states has begun growing Read More
A Declaration of Interdependence: Why America Should Join the World , by Will Hutton. W.W. Norton, 319 pages, $27.95.
What’s wrong with Venus? That’s the question Will Hutton proposes in response to Robert Kagan’s now-famous formulation that “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” In fact, Mr. Hutton argues, Americans ought to Read More
After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era, by Steven Brill. Simon & Schuster, 723 pages, $29.95.
“You lawyers are my angels,” proclaims one of the key figures midway through Steven Brill’s After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era . Sal Iacono, the man who makes the statement, is thanking his pro bono attorney Read More
