It Costs Money to Die It Costs Money to Die
Forty-five years before Jessica Mitford's exposè of the funeral industry, Paul Blanshard found out just how expensive dying can be.
Oct 12, 2009 / Paul Blanshard
Opting Out Opting Out
Jack Kevorkian is leading the movement to allow people to take death in their own hands.
Oct 12, 2009 / Frank A. Oski
End-of-Self Help End-of-Self Help
Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?
Oct 8, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Provan
What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski
He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!
Oct 7, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Drunk and Disorderly Drunk and Disorderly
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
Oct 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Phoebe Connelly
Suspended Sentences Suspended Sentences
Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.
Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
The First Counter-revolutionary The First Counter-revolutionary
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half
This Muammar is truly loony.
Sep 30, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Jon Stewart Defends Kids From the GOP Jon Stewart Defends Kids From the GOP
Stewart takes on the crazy conspiracy theories of the right, starting with the recent Fox News coverage of ACORN.
Sep 29, 2009 / The Daily Show
Glenn Beck’s Madness Mocked in Prime-Time Glenn Beck’s Madness Mocked in Prime-Time
The inevitable Glenn Beck impression makes its debut, complete with a trembling voice, blatant factual inaccuracies and Hitler salutes.
Sep 25, 2009 / Saturday Night Live