The Disaster Mentality

I have been reading Bill McKibben’s latest piece for The New York Review with great fascination. It is a review of the book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. As McKibben makes...

Internet News?

The latest issue of The New York Review has a piece by Michael Massing entitled “The News About the Internet.” In many ways it is a response to the testimony given to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet...

The Wire

If you haven’t got round to watching The Wire yet then you are missing a treat. You might have mistaken it for just another American TV series sensationalizing drugs and violence but The Wire is very different. The series focuses on the subtle...

Life in the Wake of Art

Monday, January 21, 2008 Life in the Wake of Art The timing could not have been better. On last night’s episode of The Wire, the ax came down on the newsroom staff of the Baltimore Sun while, on the other side of the continent, a related story...