Culture and Society

If you don't listen to Bush singing "Imagine", the terrorists have won.

If we are as pluralistic a society as we say we are, shouldn't we apply the same standards to everybody?

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.

I haven’t looked forward to a television show as much as I looked forward to Jon Stewart’s take on Katrina, which ran last night. And wow, it was perfect. Show excerpts, courtesy of the Daily Kos “Now, for you people who are saying “Well, stop pointing fingers at the president…left-wing…the …

Every year Project Censored puts out a list of what it considers the most censored important news stories of the year. And apparently I’m not alone in wondering just how a story can be censored when the size of the media changes literally each time someone else starts a blog. …

Jack Shafer of Slate and Ann Gerhart of the Washington Post are doing excellent work amid this chaos.

I have seen some excellent media coverage of the storm disaster and its impact and a great deal of terribly sensationalistic coverage. I thought I’d take a moment to point to two stories that I think are excellent, the kind of journalism I would have been proud to have run …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" collection.

Hey, animals are people too. Well, no, actually, but they can be friends, even best friends, and in a time of crisis they deserve our attention too. Thousands of animals were left behind when their humans evacuated. Best Friends Animal Society is doing its best to coordinate the efforts of …

Ornamental vocabulary plug-ins help to add colour, but they have a tendency to override the commonsense attributes...