Blog Profile / Slate - The Good Word
| URL : | http://www.slate.com/id/2184211/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Linguistics | |
| Posts on Regator: | 505 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2 | |
| Archived Since: | June 9, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Since 1980, 311 People Have Been Killed in School Shootings
Read the rest of Slate’s coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Dexter, Season 7
Hey Dexter, I have fallen out of love with you. Your leonine scruff hasn’t changed, or the twinkle in your eyes (even now, I can’t say for certain whether they’re brown or green). You still shed charm like water and you protect yourShow More Summary
The Music Club, 2012
Dear Will, Jason, Lindsay, and Ann,
What Did Kids Read Before Hans Christian Andersen?
Danish historian Esben Brage has discovered a previously unknown story written by Hans Christian Andersen, the 19 th -century author responsible for such children's classics as "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The...Show More Summary
Gifts for Gadget Lovers
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Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct
A white tiger is a striking creature. Tigers are always impressive animals, but when you take away the orange, the result is a big cat that looks like a phantom out of a dream. They seem almost magical, and yet I firmly believe that the world would be a better place if there was not a single white tiger in it.
Myths of the Mall Attack
Thanks to mobile phones, Twitter, and instant publishing, you can read all about the latest mass shooting within minutes. The trouble is, much of what you’re reading, even days afterward, is false. First come the erroneous, inference-riddled hearsay accounts from confused marginal witnesses. Show More Summary
The Best Jazz Albums of 2012
It’s been a solid year for jazz recordings: no truly great new albums (I doubt that any of them will make the decade’s top 10 list at the end of 2019), but all of the ones below are very good.
Drones for the Holidays
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Congratulations. Tell No One.
An inspiration for the hero of Zero Dark Thirty, a CIA agent who was celebrated with a prestigious award for helping to track down Osama Bin Laden, seemingly has had a less glorious career in the mission’s aftermath, according to the Washington Post. Show More Summary
The Zen of the Fiscal Cliff
If you are distracted by the holidays and not paying attention to every twist and turn of the fiscal cliff drama, the guidelines we set up several weeks ago still apply. Until House Republicans say they support a tax rate hike, you can ignore the noise and go about your life.
No Harm, No Standing
The gay-marriage cases coming before the Supreme Court this term address “the civil rights issue of our generation,” as Emily Bazelon wrote last week. And of the two cases the court has agreed to hear, it is the California case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, that raises the ultimate question of whether any state that denies gay couples the right to marry violates the Constitution.
Napoleon Wasn’t Defeated by the Russians
History has taught us that Napoleon, in his invasion of Russia in 1812, marched into Moscow with his army largely intact and retreated only because the citizens of Moscow burned three-fourths of the city, depriving the army of food and supplies. Show More Summary
The Cow Jumped Over the Moon?!
The other night, I did what parents of small children all over America do before bedtime. I curled up with my son and read him some inscrutable absurdism:
The Election Is Over. Now What?
After an election campaign costing well in excess of $2 billion, it seems to many observers that not much has changed in American politics: Barack Obama is still president, the Republicans still control the House of Representatives, and the Democrats still have a majority in the Senate. And now America faces the “fiscal cliff.” What next?
More Scoring! More Fumbles!
For the second year in a row, Slate and Deadspin are teaming up for a season-long NFL roundtable. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries. And click here to play the latest episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen.
Hyde Park on Hudson
The hand job in Hyde Park on Hudson (Focus Features) really arrives from out of the blue. There you are, watching Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, his distant cousin and eventual longtime mistress, take a picturesque country drive in the president’s car in the early days of their acquaintance. Show More Summary
How Jim DeMint Changed the Senate
For quite some time, in quiet tones, the friends of Jim DeMint had been expecting him to leave the Senate and take over the Heritage Foundation. On Thursday morning, when DeMint said he’d be quitting the Senate four years early, the believers were gleeful. Show More Summary
The Devil Is in the Heels
You have stumbled into the hushed, expensive interior of a high-end Midtown department store. The shoes in front of you are red patent leather 4½ -inch platforms of near perfect design, and, you know before you casually turn them over, vertiginous price.
Gifts That Say You (Kind of) Really Care
The Web is terrible at offering gift advice. Consider this scenario: It’s your sister-in-law’s birthday in a couple of days. She’s one of those super people who’s always sending you gifts and cards. Wouldn’t it be nice to get her something nice, too?