Jackson Murphy

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• 9 More than just a Home Run

  Tom Stanton's latest book “Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America” takes a detailed look inside the quest to break Babe Ruth's home run record.

  in Books — by Jackson Murphy — on Jul 07, 2004

• 8 Cast Away in an Airport Terminal

  in Video — by Jackson Murphy — on Jun 21, 2004

• 7 Exploring the Mediterranean with Muddy Boots

  Robert Kaplan's newest book, Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece tells the story of a series of trips the author took to the Mediterranean as a struggling freelance writer.

  in Books — by Jackson Murphy — on May 05, 2004

• 6 Inside the Blog Campaign

  in Sci/Tech — by Jackson Murphy — on Jan 04, 2004

• 5 Inside The Invisible Primary

  This is a time before the race really starts cooking, before normal people even think about tuning in, and where those ambitious enough to run for president pander to crowds at pancake breakfasts and make speeches in living rooms to crowds of thirty or less. It happens all across New Hampshire and Iowa in a time author Walter Shapiro calls the "Invisible Primary".

  in Books — by Jackson Murphy — on Dec 04, 2003

• 4 Walking on Broken Glass

  That kind of outrage by the press is often bewildering and mostly just boils down to a major case of the “superiorities”. That’s why the new film “Shattered Glass” is such a horror for most journalists. The keepers of integrity in public life and the shapers of so much opinion can never be seen as infallible or corruptible or worse just plain wrong.

  in Video — by Jackson Murphy — on Dec 01, 2003

• 3 Why Master and Commander is so good

  The idea of the lone ship on the far side acting on its own on simple but direct general orders is mostly a notion for bygone era. The fact that navy ships once roamed the planet free from communication and orders, yet a mission somehow remained is pretty remarkable.

  in Video — by Jackson Murphy — on Nov 20, 2003

• 2 Kill Bill and the Wave of Globalization

  in Video — by Jackson Murphy — on Oct 22, 2003

• 1 It's the style, stupid

  Style is the reason why Starbucks can charge so much for a Latte or Mocha. Put simply, you aren’t just paying for the coffee. It goes well beyond that. As Postrel investigates further, she finds that Starbuck’s is about the artwork, music, layout, design, even the smell, and general feeling you get when you walk in.

  in Books — by Jackson Murphy — on Sep 15, 2003