Ubiquitous tech and policy blogger Tim Lee talks with Doublethink Online about why blogs matter, how they'll change public policy, and more.
How have blogs changed journalism? Why are corporate blogs so bad? Ubiquitous tech and policy blogger Tim Lee tells all.
How the tale of a girl who bears a shockingly located set of fangs upends the revenge-film formula.
From escort to White House correspondent, the self-styled “Voice of the New Media” abides. (From the print edition.)
Hawaii’s congressional delegation wants the federal government to enshrine a racial purity test in law, roll back decades of social progress, and set the stage for the state’s eventual secession.
Demystifying the prof-crush.
Why a small band of upstart filmmakers is spending six figures on a short film no one will see.
From rappers to novelists to our very own lives, the cultural demand for authenticity has never been higher. But is it worth the price?
Former Congressman Bob Barr talks big on small government as he vies for this year’s Libertarian Party presidential nomination.
We’re pleased to announce that in a few short weeks, Brainwash will be relaunched as Doublethink Online.
Move over Austria and Chicago. George Mason University makes economics interesting.
Highlights from 10 years of Brainwash
Has cheating become part of the academic learning process?
Why it’s preferable to prosecute Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi Special Tribunal and not a UN-created court.
LiveJournal suicides, Theresa Duncan, and why you need to shut your laptop to mourn the dead.
With the marble statues of our nation’s heroes dusted with several inches of snow, Washington, D.C., was experiencing its coldest day in recent memory. Yet the elements did not deter thousands of college students from gathering on The Mall in January to protest the prospect of war in Iraq. Concurrently, but not quite coincidentally, I was
When military units march from one place to another, they often keep time by singing cadences. One of the most enduring of these starts off, “Here we go again, same old [stuff] again. . . .”–a useful cadence for our recurring bouts with Saddam Hussein. Recently, after repeating (for the fifth time in the past four
Iranians, connected to the outside world by satellite dishes and the Internet, are now pro-American, but they won’t be if the U.S. intervenes militarily.
Science may be unraveling the most perplexing conundrum of 30 years of sexual revolt and rewrite: to wit, why do many women, upon entering into relationships they intend to be short on seriousness and strings and long on sex and freedom, immediately begin acting childish and demanding? Everywhere men gather, they share tales of unmerited and
You have to be lucky all the time . . . We have to be lucky just once. -An international terrorist group Today’s headlines are filled with reports of megaton bombs being dropped over Yugoslavia. The laser-guided capability and pinpoint accuracy of these so-called “smart bombs” are lauded as the cutting edge of modern-day warfare.
Conservative blogger Ben Domenech’s world collapsed in just a few hours on Friday and many a politics and media junky, through the magic vision of the internet, “watched” the whole thing happen.
Americans were recently warned of a new fallout from the U.S.-China spy plane dispute. Chinese hackers apparently promised cyber-attacks on American web sites throughout the first week of May in retaliation for a wave of American hacks of Chinese sites. CNN told viewers (Apr. 27) to “beware … That nice picture of your corporate headquarters building on your web